Hi all,
I've got an ancient 204MB HDD which I experment with. Some weeks ago I
installed FreeBSD 4.0 on it, had some (unrelated) problems and then forgot
about it.
Yesterday, I decided to reuse it. I connected it up as hda on my main
machine. I found that I could not repartition it with either the Linux
fdisk or MS-DOS fdisk -- both died with errors. I was finally able to
repartition it with OS/2 Warp fdisk (!). I ran the the OS/2 install and it
ran without error until it tried to boot up the os it just installed. On
boot the bios error message 'boot error' was displayed.
As far as I can determine, the MBR is corrupt. I tried to run (DOS) fdisk
/MBR, but that died with the error 'The Master boot record was _not_
updated'. I could not install OS/2 Boot Manger with OS/2 fdisk.
Oddly enough, if I boot up with DOS or OS/2 boot disk, I am able to access
the drive and view files, etc. I suspect FreeBSD with it's customised
partition scheme may have caused the problem.
Anybody have any ideas? I'm fresh out of ideas here and all suggestions
welcome.
regards,
Biju
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