Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 16:08:10 -0400 (EDT) From: Stan Brown <stanb@netcom.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org (Free BSD Questions list) Subject: HELP! I broke my ulti boot machine :-( Message-ID: <200006122008.NAA16724@netcom.com>
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Hi,
I have a laptop that I use for work it has an 8G hard drive which I had
partitions as follows:
2G Win 95
2G FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE
2G Win NT
2G FAT
Up intill I started changing things, it worked as follows. When I
booted I was Fresented with a menu that looked like this:
F1 DOS
F2 FreeBSD
f3 DOS
f$ DOS
Now, actually only F1 and F2 really worked. F1 tooke mee to, what I
think was the NT bootloader, where I could choose from NT, NT failsafe
mode, and Windows (95).
I decided that I really was not using the 95 for anything, and I was
runing out of space for FreeBSD files. So I decided to remove the
initial partion. I went inot /stand/sysinstall, and went to "Post
Install". Then i visited bothe the Disk Label, and Disk Slice editor. I
remeber that there was an inital 63block sector, then the above parts.
At the moment I ahve the following:
Part Mount Size Newfs Part Mount Size
Newfs
---- ----- ---- ----- ---- ----- ----
-----
wd0s2a <none> 32MB *
wd0s2b swap 73MB SWAP
wd0s2e <none> 30MB *
wd0s2f <none> 1858MB *
wd0s3 <none> 1993MB DOS
wd0s4 <none> 1779MB DOS
As seen in the Disk label editor, and the following:
DISK Geometry: 1058 cyls/240 heads/63 sectors = 15996960 sectors
Offset Size End Name PType Desc Subtype
0 4188240 4188239 - 6 unused 0
4188240 4082400 8270639 wd0s2 3 freebsd 165 C
8270640 4082400 12353039 wd0s3 2 fat 6
12353040 3643920 15996959 wd0s4 2 fat 6 >
15996960 10080 16007039 - 6 unused 0 >
As seen in the disk slice editor.
If I reboot the machine I am presented with the following choices:
F2 FreeBSD
f3 DOS
f$ DOS
And can sucesfully boot inot FreeBSD (thanks heavens). However, I
obviously have no way to get the NT partition.
HELP, PLEAS! I need to be able to fix the ?boot loader? or MBR, or
whatever the magic is that makes this work.
I am pretty desperate, as this is my main work machine, and I do need
to be able to access my NT stuff, because of work demnads.
If anyone can give me some guidance on how to fix this, I will be
_very_ greatful!
--
Stan Brown stanb@netcom.com 404-996-6955
Factory Automation Systems
Atlanta Ga.
--
Look, look, see Windows 95. Buy, lemmings, buy!
Pay no attention to that cliff ahead... Henry Spencer
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