Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2003 01:06:52 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Rapha=EBl_Marmier?= <raphael@computer-rental.ch> To: "Jud" <judmarc@fastmail.fm> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD install corrupts neighboring partitions Message-ID: <227025D8-E251-11D7-B384-000393D67E4A@computer-rental.ch> In-Reply-To: <20030908200145.7384E76324@smtp.us2.messagingengine.com>
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Le Lundi, 8 sep 2003, à 22:01 Europe/Zurich, Jud a écrit : --snip-- > Once you've installed FreeBSD, if you > can't boot back into Windows, use the Windows tools to restore the > familiar Win MBR: for 9x, boot from the emergency floppy and run fdisk > /mbr; for more recent versions, boot from CD into console repair mode > and > run fixboot and fixmbr. In my case, I think I could mount the windows partition only from linux. I couldn't read it with a dos disk (same w98 se). So I thought that it was some kind of incompatibility between the way FreeBSD/Linux and Windows recognized the drive's geometry. Installing freeBSD would change something in subtil way in the partition table that would confuse windows' boot loader. I did fdisk /mbr, sys c:, etc... to no avail. Finally, installing windows in second solved the issue. I never really understood what happened though. I have to mention the windows partition was not the first primary partition (well, ok, slice in BSDspeak). Raphaël
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