Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2003 22:06:50 -0400 From: Jud <judmarc@fastmail.fm> To: =?utf-8?Q?Rapha=C3=ABl_Marmier?= <raphael@computer-rental.ch> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD install corrupts neighboring partitions Message-ID: <opru7mtoaa0cf2rk@fastmail.fm> In-Reply-To: <227025D8-E251-11D7-B384-000393D67E4A@computer-rental.ch> References: <227025D8-E251-11D7-B384-000393D67E4A@computer-rental.ch>
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On Tue, 9 Sep 2003 01:06:52 +0200, Raphaël Marmier <raphael@computer-rental.ch> 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
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