From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 12 13:10:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from netcom.com (netcom5.netcom.com [199.183.9.105]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B69037B87D for ; Mon, 12 Jun 2000 13:10:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from stanb@netcom.com) Received: (from stanb@localhost) by netcom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA16724 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 12 Jun 2000 13:08:10 -0700 (PDT) From: Stan Brown Message-Id: <200006122008.NAA16724@netcom.com> Subject: HELP! I broke my ulti boot machine :-( To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org (Free BSD Questions list) Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 16:08:10 -0400 (EDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL3] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 32MB * wd0s2b swap 73MB SWAP wd0s2e 30MB * wd0s2f 1858MB * wd0s3 1993MB DOS wd0s4 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 (c) 1998 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message