From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 29 14:24:53 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dsl-64-193-218-89.telocity.com (dsl-64-193-218-89.telocity.com [64.193.218.89]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8745037B400 for ; Mon, 29 Jan 2001 14:24:36 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 766 invoked by uid 1000); 29 Jan 2001 22:22:24 -0000 Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 16:22:24 -0600 From: Lucas Bergman To: Nigel Soon Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: can not boot into OS after install Message-ID: <20010129162224.E17961@billygoat.slb.to> Reply-To: lucas@slb.to References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from nigels@advanis.ca on Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 11:02:07PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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