From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 12 2:34:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail5.bigmailbox.com (mail5.bigmailbox.com [209.132.220.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C61E37B71A for ; Mon, 12 Mar 2001 02:34:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wsimpson@my-deja.com) Received: œby mail5.bigmailbox.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) id CAA04340; Mon, 12 Mar 2001 02:34:41 -0800 Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 02:34:41 -0800 Message-Id: <200103121034.CAA04340@mail5.bigmailbox.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary X-Mailer: MIME-tools 4.104 (Entity 4.116) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Originating-Ip: [193.62.250.163] From: "wsimpson Last Name" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: dos format and MBR? Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have been trying to set up a dual boot machine: FreeBSD and dos. The FreeBSD end seems fine, but it seems I have some corruption of the dos partition. I am not very familiar with how the boot manager works. If I say run a dos scandisk or disk doctor utility, or format the dos partition, will this screw up the MBR and therefore I won't be able to boot into FreeBSD any more? I would like to avoid reinstalling FreeBSD. Naively it seems that if I format the dos partition the install dos on it I will trash the FreeBSD boot loader. How can I fix up dos and leave FreeBSD intact? Thanks very much for any help! Bill Simpson ------------------------------------------------------------ --== Sent via Deja.com ==-- http://www.deja.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message