Date: Sun, 05 Aug 2001 04:09:39 -0400 From: "Doug Reynolds" <mav@wastegate.net> To: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org>, "Louis LeBlanc" <leblanc+freebsd@acadia.ne.mediaone.net> Subject: Re: MBR got hosed! Message-ID: <20010805081223.60BEC37B401@hub.freebsd.org>
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On Sat, 4 Aug 2001 21:34:12 -0400, Louis LeBlanc wrote: >Anyway again, I am now trying to get this old frankenstein installed >with Win95 for my brother-in-law. He's starting college in the fall >and will need something to surf with and do research (Yah, right). >Well, the stupid thing won't seem to boot. I've tried going back into >the FreeBSD setup and deleting the partitions but it won't actually >write anything until you allocate a ufs slice and configure your >install choices (which is good for a regular install). I also tried >to set up install disks for 95 and NT, but no good. I can't even seem >to come up with a boot disk for 95 (I don't have one installed). depending on how old the drive is, the MBR could possibly be scrap. especially on computers that get rebooted and booted a lot.. i had it happen to me on one of my old bbs HDs. drive ran fine, but wouldnt boot. normally if you get a win9x boot disk and boot into DOS, all you really need to do is run a fdisk /mbr and that puts in the normal dos MBR --- doug reynolds | the maverick | mav@wastegate.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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