Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 13:09:42 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Hara_Kiri <dpang01@hills.ccsf.cc.ca.us> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help!! Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980429130842.13074C-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <33669DA2.DC4CB957@hills.ccsf.cc.ca.us>
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On Tue, 29 Apr 1997, Hara_Kiri wrote: > I installed FreeBSD on my IBM Thinkpad laptop, and I'm having problems > getting to my Win 95 partition, which has a LOT of important information > on it....Whenever I reboot the computer, it automatically boots FreeBSD, > even though during the installation I specifically stated NOT to touch > the Boot Manager. Can you help?? What happened is that the fdisk manager reset the active partition bit to the FreeBSD machine. Since you have no boot manager you have to use DOS FDISK to change the active partition when you want to change OSs. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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