Date: Mon, 14 Aug 95 9:25:00 CDT From: Arabinda Bose <axb00@arrowsmith.com> To: hackers@FreeBsd.org Cc: questions@FreeBsd.org, abose@sceptre.arrowsmith.com Subject: Problem during FreeBSD installation Message-ID: <199508141430.HAA18594@freefall.FreeBSD.org>
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Hi, I have a FreeBSD 2.0, released in Jan 1994. I had DOS/WINDOWS installed on my Pentium 90MHZ and I blew up my hard disk boot code during the installation of Free BSD. Could anyone please help. I partitioned my hard disk for DOS (400 Meg) and kept 412 Meg for BSD. I installed the DOS on the machine first and then started installing FreeBSD from the boot diskette. I went through the partioning of file systems fine, allocated swap space on 'b' and fixed the mount points for /, /usr, etc and did "Proceed". It said, this will erase your hard disk, proceed Y/N, I did a Yes and then it asked to reboot. After the reboot, it came up with two options F1 DOS F2 FreeBSD Nothing happened when I press F1 or F2. I deleted the BSD and tried to install DOS again but it gave the similar prompt(F1 DOS, F2 FreeBSD) during the reboot. I guess my boot record on the hard disk has got corrupted. Can you tell me how to get back again if I want to change my boot program on the harddrive ? I tried to format the "C" drive, it didn't help. Thanks in advane -- Arabinda Bose
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