Thomas: Thank you for your response. I agree that Windows ME is junk. Until last night, it was just another coaster.
I had FreeBSD (4.8-Release) replace the MBR by doing "fdisk -b" and it didn't work (actually it toasted the MBR). So System Commander replaced the MBR, but the BIOS still gives me that error. -----Original Message----- From: Thomas T. Veldhouse [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 7:49 AM To: Carter, Mr. James A. Subject: Re: "Boot Error" from BIOS after try to install 5.1-RELEASE Boot to a prompt using your Windows ME disk (blah ... the worst version of Windows EVER). At the prompt: fdisk /mbr Tom Veldhouse ----- Original Message ----- From: "Carter, Mr. James A." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 9:46 AM Subject: "Boot Error" from BIOS after try to install 5.1-RELEASE > Greetings List: > > After trying to install 5.1-RELEASE from CD (which fails miserably during > the BTX stage), my hard drive stopped booting. When the BIOS reaches my > hard-drive while scanning for bootable devices, it displays the message > "Boot Error". > > I then inserted a Windows ME CD and selected "Boot From HD". This booted > into System Commander (which is what used to happen automatically). > > System Commander detects no errors in the partitions on the hard-drive, and > obviously the MBR is in place (or else SC would not have loaded). > > Any ideas on what I fried and how I can fix it? Is there a way to get > FreeBSD to fix the boot sector on my HDD? > > Thanks, > James > > > _______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
