From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 5 1:12:26 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp3.mx.pitdc1.stargate.net (smtp3.mx.pitdc1.stargate.net [206.210.69.143]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 60BEC37B401 for ; Sun, 5 Aug 2001 01:12:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mav@wastegate.net) Received: (qmail 892 invoked from network); 5 Aug 2001 08:12:15 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mother) (209.166.133.236) by smtp3.mx.pitdc1.stargate.net with SMTP; 5 Aug 2001 08:12:15 -0000 From: "Doug Reynolds" To: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org" , "Louis LeBlanc" Date: Sun, 05 Aug 2001 04:09:39 -0400 Reply-To: "Doug Reynolds" X-Mailer: PMMail 98 Professional (2.01.1600) For Windows 98 (4.10.2222) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: MBR got hosed! Message-Id: <20010805081223.60BEC37B401@hub.freebsd.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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