Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2004 20:23:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Saccheen Martin <sach_anna@yahoo.com> To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cannot see Windows after installing FreeBSD Message-ID: <20040926032304.47194.qmail@web40006.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <200409261156.15910.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net>
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Hi Malcolm, The other computer is not on a network so I will try to type the outputs. # /sbin/fdisk ad0 *****Working on device /dev/ad0/ ****** Parameters extracted are cyl=787 heads 128 sectors/track=63 (8064 blks/cyl) parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: cyl=787 heads=128 sectors/track=63. (8064 blks/cyl) Media sector size is 512 Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1 Information from DOS bootblock is : The data for partition 1 is sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) start 63, size 6346305 (3098Meg), flag 0 beg: cyl 0/ head 1/ sector 1; end: cyl 786/ head 127/ sector 63 The data for partition 2 is <UNUSED> The data for partition 3 is <UNUSED> The data for partition 4 is <UNUSED> # # /sbin/fdisk ad1 *****Working on device /dev/ad1/ ****** Parameters extracted are cyl=9729 heads 255 sectors/track=63 Figures below won't work with Bios for partitions not in cyl 1. parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: cyl=9729 heads=255 sectors/track=63. (16065 blks/cyl) Media sector size is 512 Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1 Information from DOS bootblock is : The data for partition 1 is sysid 7,(OS/2 HPFS, NTFS, QNX-2 (16 bit) or Advanced Unix) start 63, size 156280257 (76308Meg), flag 80 (active) beg: cyl 0/ head 1/ sector 1; end: cyl 1023/ head 254/ sector 63 The data for partition 2 is <UNUSED> The data for partition 3 is <UNUSED> The data for partition 4 is <UNUSED> # --- Malcolm Kay <malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> wrote: > On Sun, 26 Sep 2004 12:23 am, Saccheen Martin wrote: > > Hi Malcolm, > > Thank you so much for replying. I did what you > said > > and I got the following: > > > > F1 FreeBSD > > F5 Drive 1 > > > > When I press F5, I get: > > >>FreeBSD/i386 BOOT > > > > Default: 0:ad0(0,a)/boot/loader > > boot: _ > > > > What do I type at the boot: prompt to get windows? > > Thanks > > > > Sorry, I don't understand how this has come about. > It would seem that somehow you have some partial > FreeBSD installation on Drive 1 (the Slave). > > It might help if you can post the outputs from > # /sbin/fdisk ad0 > and > # /sbin/fdisk ad1 > run as root under FreeBSD > > Malcolm > > > > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - Send 10MB messages! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail
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