Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 16:22:24 -0600 From: Lucas Bergman <lucas@slb.to> To: Nigel Soon <nigels@advanis.ca> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: can not boot into OS after install Message-ID: <20010129162224.E17961@billygoat.slb.to> In-Reply-To: <Pine.WNT.4.31.0101282246260.-257055@blah.edbd1.ab.wave.home.com>; from nigels@advanis.ca on Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 11:02:07PM -0700 References: <Pine.WNT.4.31.0101282246260.-257055@blah.edbd1.ab.wave.home.com>
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> I have just installed FreeBSD onto my drive that also has a windows > partition on it. The install went fine but when I went to reboot I > dont even get to Boot0, just a blank screen with a flashing cursor. > > So now I have run fdisk /mbr and changed the active partion back to > windows. If anyone has ideas please share. If you can somehow boot your machine into FreeBSD (say, with the CD), then you can reinstall the bootloader. See a little tutorial I wrote on this before at http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=1185480+0+/usr/local/www/db/text/2000/freebsd-questions/20001008.freebsd-questions Sorry about the length of that URL. Lucas To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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