Date: Sat, 15 Apr 1995 22:30:41 -0400 (EDT) From: Mark Bynum <bynum@grep.cs.fsu.edu> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Fdisk /MBR didn't work Message-ID: <199504160230.WAA10920@grep.cs.fsu.edu>
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I now have a problem after messing around with my hard drive (trying to get FreeBSD to read my DOS IDE drive when FreeBSD resides on my SCSI drive). I messed up, I think, the drive info when doing an fdisk in FreeBSD and it wouldn't boot to DOS from the hard drive (but the boot manager let me boot into FreeBSD). However I can boot to DOS using a floppy disk. Next, I tried to do a fdisk /mbr (in dos) to let me be able to boot to DOS. Now when the computer boots up it says invalid disk or no system files (paraphrased) and asks me to insert a disk I can boot from and press any key to continue. I still can boot from a floppy into DOS however. The DOS system files are still on the DOS disk (I checked). My two questions are: 1) How do I get the computer to boot up into DOS again without a disk? 2) How do I get the boot manager installed once again so I can boot into FreeBSD? Please help as this is real annoying! Thanks, Mark Bynum bynum@cs.fsu.edu
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