Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 04:05:13 GMT From: jak@cetlink.net (John Kelly) To: Hara_Kiri <dpang01@hills.ccsf.cc.ca.us> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Set active partition after FreeBSD install Message-ID: <3546a691.110595427@mail.cetlink.net> In-Reply-To: <33669DA2.DC4CB957@hills.ccsf.cc.ca.us> References: <33669DA2.DC4CB957@hills.ccsf.cc.ca.us>
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On Tue, 29 Apr 1997 18:17:23 -0700, Hara_Kiri <dpang01@hills.ccsf.cc.ca.us> 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
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