Date: Thu, 25 May 1995 11:52:13 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> To: jhs@vector.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de (Julian Howard Stacey) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: fdisk problem - any suggestions Message-ID: <199505251852.LAA01120@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> In-Reply-To: <199505251545.RAA29534@vector.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de> from "Julian Howard Stacey" at May 25, 95 05:45:08 pm
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> > > Hi folks, > I've painted myself into a corner, & would welcome suggestions how to > get out :-) > > I used to have a 50M DOS partition on my root partition, but it was corrupt, > & fdisk didnt understand it, so i reinstalled the drive, & reduced the 50M > to 20M too :-), > I used DOS fdisk to install a C:, then Freebsd fdisk to & disklabel > using both rsd0c & rsd0d as I recall, > (I suspect maybe i should have not done 0d) .. > Now I have a DOS partition I can mount under Freebsd, > I can even see the C: dos thing if i boot from a dos flopppy, > but if i try to boot off the hard disc it always runs freebsd, > regardless of whether I mark freebsd or dos as active with fdisk. > > Only thing I can think of now is to install that os-bs thing (from wherever) > > Any other suggestions ? fdisk/mbr perhaps, you may still have a FreeBSD boot strap in block 0-15 of the drive. -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Custom computers for FreeBSD
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