From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 27 06:15:15 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 66C454A9 for ; Thu, 27 Nov 2014 06:15:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-vc0-x22f.google.com (mail-vc0-x22f.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400c:c03::22f]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 19060F4E for ; Thu, 27 Nov 2014 06:15:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-vc0-f175.google.com with SMTP id hy10so1903835vcb.6 for ; Wed, 26 Nov 2014 22:15:14 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=a6hjExahUaumGRj+YhVdYuDYjaRNDph1q/QHFd8pMbg=; b=O1d3ZJ/OilcSBqMlZNmifjnwvXMOslZ/GPNU1VF+Vdnv8rU2V4m/5yVeves2Smoo3n lEgD3IQ7wDv/trU6i8vwbsk5QN6n5pTtAPl8vNFiqosX5vJTk/xr5KLd8kZFIPCxFNOo iHqTAm2KQ2K/D6qTnGzka/gVRsavP32nZHGhjPQLY67o0vItv57bxOSL1iB6SKZR+lUX HVrGdX3L/O+iDNE3jnwKB0NmGv/ArWXTV1ncysVCVONW4wNC71bXSRqWP7iakJkkGi2i Xqdc330U9FNV5n5i/7Y36TyrfEnql5S9lC8IgPx3lmQOLfCn8hYG5vg/m/7vIhpcMn9X zPZA== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.220.74.9 with SMTP id s9mr10599166vcj.74.1417068914246; Wed, 26 Nov 2014 22:15:14 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.31.137.17 with HTTP; Wed, 26 Nov 2014 22:15:14 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2014 22:15:14 -0800 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Fwd: Reinstalling Windows from a corrupt FreeBSD install From: Mike Starr To: Warren Block Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.18-1 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2014 06:15:15 -0000 The command gpart bootcode -b /boot/boot0 ada0 worked. I now have access, through a very minimalist boot manager, to all my partitions. Thank you! Micael On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 11:42 AM, Warren Block wrote: > On Wed, 26 Nov 2014, Mike Starr wrote: > > In response to boot0cfg -B ada0 I got the error >> >> boot0cfg: Unable to get providername for ada0 >> > > It might be necessary to use gpart: > gpart bootcode -b /boot/boot0 ada0 > > How do you recommend transferring the EasyBCD thing to the FreeBSD >> laptop? Boot from a CD with the software burnt onto it? >> >> And for VirtualBox, that would be on the non-corrupt laptop I'm currently >> running off of, if I'm getting everything right here? >> > > I've used the Plop boot manager to boot from other devices and think it > it will handle multiple partitions. > http://www.plop.at/en/bootmanagers.html > > Put that on a USB memory stick and boot from it. Boot into Windows and > then try to find their well-hidden fixboot or fixmbr utilities. Or just > install EasyBCD at that point. >