From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 27 08:27:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA08064 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 27 Dec 1998 08:27:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp04.wxs.nl (smtp04.wxs.nl [195.121.6.59]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA08059 for ; Sun, 27 Dec 1998 08:27:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from asmodai@wxs.nl) Received: from chronias.ninth-circle.org ([195.121.57.153]) by smtp04.wxs.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 3.6) with ESMTP id AAA1BE9; Sun, 27 Dec 1998 17:27:31 +0100 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1998 17:34:13 +0100 (CET) Organization: Ninth Circle Enterprises From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai To: John Kenagy Subject: RE: boot sector restoration Cc: questions freebsd Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 27-Dec-98 John Kenagy wrote: > I find I must put a dos partition back on a machine I had dedicated > to FreeBSD. > > It seems that the boot sector (I'm pushing the envelope of my limited > knowlege here) is gone. The error is "no bootable partition." Use Mickeysoft's undocumented option: fdisk /mbr restores the Master Boot Record... Have, ehm, fun =P --- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven Life is the only Pain asmodai(at)wxs.nl we endeavour... Network/Security Specialist BSD & picoBSD: The Power to Serve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message