From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 8 19:06:57 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C0AD16A4BF for ; Mon, 8 Sep 2003 19:06:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.messagingengine.com (out2.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.26]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3CD843FEA for ; Mon, 8 Sep 2003 19:06:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from judmarc@fastmail.fm) Received: from mail.messagingengine.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04F331A4ABF; Mon, 8 Sep 2003 22:06:55 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 10.202.2.150 ([10.202.2.150] helo=mail.messagingengine.com) by messagingengine.com with SMTP; Mon, 08 Sep 2003 22:06:55 -0400 X-Epoch: 1063073215 X-Sasl-enc: iyLKFOqa0R9YyZYW3XzNQw Received: from sparky (dialup-67.74.84.25.Dial1.Philadelphia1.Level3.net [67.74.84.25]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20E371A23C9; Mon, 8 Sep 2003 22:06:51 -0400 (EDT) To: =?utf-8?Q?Rapha=C3=ABl_Marmier?= References: <227025D8-E251-11D7-B384-000393D67E4A@computer-rental.ch> Message-ID: From: Jud Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=utf-8 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2003 22:06:50 -0400 In-Reply-To: <227025D8-E251-11D7-B384-000393D67E4A@computer-rental.ch> User-Agent: Opera7.20/Win32 M2 build 3107 cc: Dan Harrison cc: Brett Glass cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: FreeBSD install corrupts neighboring partitions X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2003 02:06:57 -0000 On Tue, 9 Sep 2003 01:06:52 +0200, Raphaël Marmier wrote: > > 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 In order to boot, a Windows 98SE partition ordinarily must "think it is" the first primary partition. This and the fact that you also had Linux installed (or was this a Linux CD?) indicates to me there was other software involved in your situation beyond simply Windows and FreeBSD. Jud