From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 4 20:20:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from idk.com (idk.com [65.104.9.99]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0E0037B401 for ; Sat, 4 Aug 2001 20:20:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tony@idk.com) Received: (from tony@localhost) by idk.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA24236 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Sat, 4 Aug 2001 20:20:31 -0700 (PDT) From: Tony Message-Id: <200108050320.UAA24236@idk.com> Subject: Re: MBR got hosed! To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2001 20:20:31 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20010804213412.C30510@acadia.ne.mediaone.net> from "Louis LeBlanc" at Aug 04, 2001 09:34:12 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL5] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG If you boot to DOS, one can enter: fdisk /mbr to rewrite just the master boot record. If you want to remove the bood record it is much more complicated and involes using DOS debug to zap the boot sector completely. > > Hey all. I have a problem I can't seem to get around. > > I hope this isn't too far off topic, since it does involve a M$ OS, > but I did try to put FreeBSD on it a while back. > > Before installing FreeBSD on a newer system, I decided to experiment > on a non critical one I had lying around (a real frankenstein system). > > Anyway, I really screwed it up somehow with the boot record, but I > learned and moved on to a better system - things went much smoother > this time. > > Anyway again, I am now trying to get this old frankenstein installed > with Win95 for my brother-in-law. He's starting college in the fall > and will need something to surf with and do research (Yah, right). > Well, the stupid thing won't seem to boot. I've tried going back into > the FreeBSD setup and deleting the partitions but it won't actually > write anything until you allocate a ufs slice and configure your > install choices (which is good for a regular install). I also tried > to set up install disks for 95 and NT, but no good. I can't even seem > to come up with a boot disk for 95 (I don't have one installed). > > Even NT can't seem to fix the MBR so it will boot. Right now I have > NT installed on a FAT partition, and it just won't boot without a > floppy. > > Any idea how to fix this? I'm ready to throw the drives out the damn > window and forget the stupid thing. Of course that's not how I'd > rather fix it :| > > Thanks for your help. > Lou > -- > Louis LeBlanc leblanc@acadia.ne.mediaone.net > Fully Funded Hobbyist, KeySlapper Extrordinaire :) > http://acadia.ne.mediaone.net ԿԬ > > wok, n.: > Something to thwow at a wabbit. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message