Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 21:54:16 +1000 From: "Doug Young" <dougy@bryden.apana.org.au> To: "wsimpson Last Name" <wsimpson@my-deja.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: dos format and MBR? Message-ID: <02aa01c0aaeb$2c800dc0$847e03cb@apana.org.au> References: <200103121034.CAA04340@mail5.bigmailbox.com>
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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
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