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Subject: Re: fdisk problem - any suggestions
To: jhs@vector.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de (Julian Howard Stacey)
Date: Thu, 25 May 1995 11:52:13 -0700 (PDT)
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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.


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