From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 28 21:03:16 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA03905 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 28 Apr 1998 21:03:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns2.cetlink.net (root@ns2.cetlink.net [209.54.54.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA03885 for ; Tue, 28 Apr 1998 21:03:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jak@cetlink.net) Received: from EXIT10 (i485-gw.cetlink.net [209.198.15.97]) by ns2.cetlink.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id AAA10006; Wed, 29 Apr 1998 00:03:02 -0400 (EDT) From: jak@cetlink.net (John Kelly) To: Hara_Kiri Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Set active partition after FreeBSD install Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 04:05:13 GMT Message-ID: <3546a691.110595427@mail.cetlink.net> References: <33669DA2.DC4CB957@hills.ccsf.cc.ca.us> In-Reply-To: <33669DA2.DC4CB957@hills.ccsf.cc.ca.us> X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.5/32.451 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id VAA03888 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 29 Apr 1997 18:17:23 -0700, Hara_Kiri wrote: >I installed FreeBSD on my IBM Thinkpad laptop, and I'm having problems >getting to my Win 95 partition, which has a LOT of important information >on it....Whenever I reboot the computer, it automatically boots FreeBSD, >even though during the installation I specifically stated NOT to touch >the Boot Manager. Can you help?? FreeBSD sets the active partition to itself. You need to boot from a DOS floppy and run FDISK to set the active partition back to W95. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message