Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 02:34:41 -0800 From: "wsimpson Last Name" <wsimpson@my-deja.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: dos format and MBR? Message-ID: <200103121034.CAA04340@mail5.bigmailbox.com>
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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
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