From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 12 3:53:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bryden.apana.org.au (bryden.apana.org.au [203.3.126.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFDFE37B718 for ; Mon, 12 Mar 2001 03:53:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dougy@bryden.apana.org.au) Received: from roadrunner (roadrunner.apana.org.au [203.3.126.132]) by bryden.apana.org.au (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id f2CBrHq01848; Mon, 12 Mar 2001 21:53:20 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from dougy@bryden.apana.org.au) Message-ID: <02aa01c0aaeb$2c800dc0$847e03cb@apana.org.au> From: "Doug Young" To: "wsimpson Last Name" , References: <200103121034.CAA04340@mail5.bigmailbox.com> Subject: Re: dos format and MBR? Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 21:54:16 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG With the price of hard drives & those removable cradles being what it is these days its probably simpler & more reliable to have two drives and simply plug in whichever you want ... at least that guarantees that one O/S won't mess with the other one. > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message