From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 4 21:35:55 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from heorot.1nova.com (heorot.1nova.com [63.105.24.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22A6D37B401 for ; Sat, 4 Aug 2001 21:35:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hamellr@1nova.com) Received: by heorot.1nova.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 516BF18EA; Sat, 4 Aug 2001 21:35:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by heorot.1nova.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A14F18E9; Sat, 4 Aug 2001 21:35:52 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2001 21:35:52 -0700 (PDT) From: Rick Hamell To: Louis LeBlanc Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: MBR got hosed! In-Reply-To: <20010804213412.C30510@acadia.ne.mediaone.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 > 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. fdisk /mbr just to be safe. Then enter the Fdisk utility and make your first partition active. That should do it. Rick ******************************************************************* Rick's FreeBSD Web page http://heorot.1nova.com/freebsd Ace Logan's Hardware Guide http://hw.shatteredcrystal.com ***FreeBSD - The Power to Serve! http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message