Hi to all. Here's a little question whose answer I can't figure out yet.
Little question: Given the fact that I have accidentally installed GRUB in the boot sector of my windows partition, is there a way to remove that loader from there and regain the original contents of that sector? (Hint: "fdisk /mbr" does not work since it has to do with the MBR and not the boot sector of each partition) Analysis: I have a 40GB HD which has the following slices (BSD terminology of partitions). ad0s1 -> Windows ad0s2 -> FreeBSD ad0s3 -> Extended ad0s4 -> Linux (RH 7.2) The picture of the disk (as for the order of the slices in the disk) looks like the following: +-----+-----+-------------------+-----+ | BSD | Lin | Windows 98 SE | Ext | +-----+-----+-------------------+-----+ Now, after a couple of experiments I managed to re-install the FreeBSD boot loader on the MBR and managed to run FreeBSD from the hard disk (yes, it was fun <g>). The problem is that I want to be able to boot windows from my disk but that doesn't seem to have a nice possibility of success. When I select "DOS" from the FreeBSD boot loader (Previously the display was "??", two question marks), GRUB takes over and presents me with a nice (but, IMEHO, useless in *this* case) prompt. The: rootnoverify (hd0,0) makeactive chainloader +1 boot sequence of commands does not help since that it gives control to the boot sector of my win partition (where GRUB resides), causing GRUB to re-gain control on the booting process and me eyewitness a wonderful (but still irritating) loop. I tried booting with Win98Se disks but it reports an error (INT 24) while trying to "dir" C: drive (incompatible device, if I translate it right). fdisk shows that my win partition is fat-32 (true) and next to it there is a big "UNKNOWN" string ( I can't remember whether this is normal or not). I tried to "sys c:" from the win98se floppy but the same INT 24 error still insists being non-friendly. I tried to boot with my Partition Magic (TM) disks but they report: "Critical error: Abort, Retry, Ignore, Fail". Through FreeBSD I can mount my win partition and read my files normally. Given the fact that I need the data that's stored at the win partition and I can't move all of it via floppies/Zips, does anyone know a possible solution of this whole story? If the answer is "yes" (or even "ja"), I would be happy to read it. [ Searching in Web and Usenet hasn't revealed any useful thing yet ] Thanks for your time and (possible) solutions. tnu P.S: Booting Linux via FreeBSD boot loader fails due to kernel panic (cannot mount root). I don't care about the linux partition as it was a testing system and can easily been re-installed. ============= PCWorks Mailing List ================= Don't see your post? Check our posting guidelines & make sure you've followed proper posting procedures, http://pcworkers.com/rules.htm Contact list owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribing and other changes: http://pcworkers.com =====================================================
