Hi
I am currently dual booting between windows and freebsd but I need to
reinstall windows on the other partition. How do I create a freebsd boot
disk so that after windows rewrites my mbr I can still get back to bsd?
Then how would I re-install freebsd's boot manager so I can continue to
Gayn Winters wrote:
-Original Message-
From: Alex Zbyslaw [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2005 1:59 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Fixing a MBR (and more) that ??? trashed
Gayn Winters wrote:
Alex Zbyslaw [mailto
On Wednesday 14 September 2005 03:18 pm, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> "Michael W. Holdeman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > I have a compaq proliant 3000 E39 and have FreeBSD installed to a 40G IDE
> > drive I installed. It lets me install anyithing I want but the
> > BIOS/Firmware will not support boot
> > Gayn Winters wrote:
> >
> > >>Alex Zbyslaw [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > >>
> > >>Why do you think it's not safe to add hard drives?
> > >
> > >It doesn't seem "safe" if Windows blows away the multibo
> -Original Message-
> From: Alex Zbyslaw [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2005 1:59 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: Fixing a MBR (and more) that ??? trashed
>
> Gayn Winters wrote:
>
>
"Michael W. Holdeman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have a compaq proliant 3000 E39 and have FreeBSD installed to a 40G IDE
> drive I installed. It lets me install anyithing I want but the BIOS/Firmware
> will not support booting from teh IDE HD's. I want to keep the SCSI array for
> clean da
Gayn Winters wrote:
Alex Zbyslaw [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Why do you think it's not safe to add hard drives?
It doesn't seem "safe" if Windows blows away the multiboot MBR that
FreeBSD so carefully made! Windows overwriting the MBR seems to be the
reason peop
> -Original Message-
> From: Alex Zbyslaw [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2005 2:43 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: Fixing a MBR (and more) that ??? trashed
>
>
> Gayn Winters wrote:
>
Sorry, I didn't follow the whole discussion; I have no idea how
sysinstall might handle a corrupted disk label, but I do think that when
it works, it will do -o packet writing the MBR when it thinks it
necessary, possibly by default. I thought you'd said that you'd run
boot0cf
> -Original Message-
> From: Alex Zbyslaw [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2005 2:06 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: Fixing a MBR (and more) that ??? trashed
>
>
> Gayn Winters wrote:
>
"Gayn Winters" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 1. What did/do I need to do to completely fix the Master Boot Record?
> (Short of reinstalling FreeBSD!)
I like what the other guy said about "-o packet".
> 2. Was the disk label on the FreeBSD slice ad1s2 really corrupted? If
Unlikely, at least u
Gayn Winters wrote:
Life was good until I wanted to add another disk. The w2k operating
system, when booted, saw the new hardware, "installed" it, and demanded
that I reboot. OK, but when I did, the FreeBSD boot manager was
trashed. Its menu looked like:
F1 ???
F2 FreeBSD
F5
Default: F#
I co
I recently installed Windows 2000 and FreeBSD 5.4 on an old HP Pavilion
XG836. [The FreeBSD installation was a breeze (Kudos to the FBSD
hardware team), while w2k was a disaster! But, that's another story...]
For reasons of space and cabling (it is a very small box) I put the CD
as the master and
I have a compaq proliant 3000 E39 and have FreeBSD installed to a 40G IDE
drive I installed. It lets me install anyithing I want but the BIOS/Firmware
will not support booting from teh IDE HD's. I want to keep the SCSI array for
clean data on this server. How do I go about actually booting with
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Hello,
Vittorio De Martino wrote:
| # fdisk -B -b /boot/boot0 ad0
| fdisk: cannot open disk /dev/ad0: No such file or directory
|
| and with
|
| # fdisk -B -b /boot/boot0 ad1
| fdisk: cannot open disk /dev/ad1: No such file or directory
I
ne I'm
> using an
> NTFS volume so fdisk/mbr doesn't work and neither does booting to an xp cd
> recovery console and using fixboot or fixmbr. The [EMAIL PROTECTED] booteasy
> boot
> manager still leaves something in the mbrnothing works! I cannot believe
> th
?? Anyone I'm
> using an NTFS volume so fdisk/mbr doesn't work and neither does booting to an
> xp cd recovery console and using fixboot or fixmbr. The [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> booteasy boot manager still leaves something in the mbrnothing works! I
> cannot believe th
coured the [EMAIL PROTECTED] net & still have NOT found an
answer??? Anyone I'm using an NTFS volume so fdisk/mbr doesn't
work and neither does booting to an xp cd recovery console and using
fixboot or fixmbr. The [EMAIL PROTECTED] booteasy boot manager still leaves
something in
Jerry Tarwid wrote:
I am dual booting with Winblows XP and FreeBSD. I installed the FreeBSD Boot
manager so I can dual boot. I now want to remove it! I have freaking scoured the
[EMAIL PROTECTED] net & still have NOT found an answer??? Anyone I'm using
an NTFS volume so fdisk/mb
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>>From dmesg:
> ad0: 9541MB [19386/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA33
I think you just said that
> vicbsd root# fdisk /dev/ad0
> vicbsd root# bsdlabel /dev/ad0s1
work OK, but that your problem (from a prior msg) is:
>>># fdisk -B -b /boot/boot0 ad0
>>>fdisk: cannot open di
gt;To: Vittorio De Martino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>From: Glenn Dawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: Problems with booting & MBR
>
>
>At 08:25 AM 7/29/2005, you wrote:
>>Friends,
>>as suggested in the docs in the internet I tried both with
>>
>>
I am dual booting with Winblows XP and FreeBSD. I installed the FreeBSD Boot
manager so I can dual boot. I now want to remove it! I have freaking scoured
the [EMAIL PROTECTED] net & still have NOT found an answer??? Anyone I'm
using an NTFS volume so fdisk/mbr doesn't work an
0
>
> Now, even though I read the booting procedure in the handbook and somewhere
> else in the internet, issuing the various "fdisk -b B", "disklabel -b ..",
> "boot0cfg ..", I was completely unable to modify the MBR and make this
> FreeBSD only
Am 29.07.2005 um 17:06 schrieb Alex Zbyslaw:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=61+617364+/usr/
local/www/db/text/2005/freebsd-questions/20050626.freebsd-questions
Thank you, Alex. Problem solved - System is back up. :-D
Jörg
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Jörg Reisenweber wrote:
Hi list,
I know the command how to restore the MBR ('fdisk -B -b /boot/boot0
ad0), but know this stupid question of mine (Windows has overwritten
the old MBR with its own): How do I manage to get to a working prompt
with at least some useful commands su
Hi list,
I know the command how to restore the MBR ('fdisk -B -b /boot/boot0
ad0), but know this stupid question of mine (Windows has overwritten
the old MBR with its own): How do I manage to get to a working prompt
with at least some useful commands such as 'mount' ava
Gary W. Swearingen wrote:
If you're sticking to FreeBSD's boot0 MBR, you'll have to put one on
each disk. I don't know if boot0 can remember "F5" as the default
choice for auto-booting or not. But one way or another the first
disk's boot0 needs to use "
Now, even though I read the booting procedure in the handbook and somewhere
> else in the internet, issuing the various "fdisk -b B", "disklabel -b ..",
> "boot0cfg ..", I was completely unable to modify the MBR and make this FreeBSD
> only computer boot directl
-b B", "disklabel -b ..",
"boot0cfg ..", I was completely unable to modify the MBR and make this FreeBSD
only computer boot directly into this OS.
What should I do with the configuration I have?
A straightforward and step by step explanation is highly appreciated.
P.S. Is it p
Mac Mason wrote:
I've got a machine with FreeBSD on it. Recently, I added another drive,
on which I put Windows. Given that I don't really trust the Windows
install program with my MBR, I unplugged the FreeBSD drive during the
install.
Now, the FreeBSD bootloader can't loa
On 6/21/05, Mac Mason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've got a machine with FreeBSD on it. Recently, I added another drive,
> on which I put Windows. Given that I don't really trust the Windows
> install program with my MBR, I unplugged the FreeBSD drive during the
> in
I've got a machine with FreeBSD on it. Recently, I added another drive,
on which I put Windows. Given that I don't really trust the Windows
install program with my MBR, I unplugged the FreeBSD drive during the
install.
Now, the FreeBSD bootloader can't load windows; if I unplug th
Hi all,
Can you tell me if FreeBSD boot manager is able to manage darwin
partitions?
thanks
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%ls -l /dev/ar0
crw-r- 1 root operator4, 21 Nov 23 17:34 /dev/ar0
- Now, the device ar0 has the standard mbr installed:
%cmp /dev/ar0 /boot/mbr
/dev/ar0 /boot/mbr differ: char 447, line 1
- The boot0cfg program does not have any setuid bits:
%ls -l /usr/sbin/boot0cfg
-r-xr-xr-x
Erik Norgaard wrote:
Jeremy Faulkner wrote:
'fdisk -B' didn't work?
Nope :-( I have installed gpart, it complians*
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad0 bs=512 count=32
fdisk -BI ad0
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad0s1 bs=512 count=32
bsdlabel -w -B ad0s1
did the job. I think I shouldn't have specified -w in the l
Jeremy Faulkner wrote:
'fdisk -B' didn't work?
Nope :-( I have installed gpart, it complians*
* Warning: partition(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) starts beyond disk end.
Partition(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD): invalid primary
OK.
and then guessed an empty partition table...
?
Thanks, Erik
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ning was gone.
I can run sysinstall, slice up the disk and install stuff. But on reboot
the system doesn't find a usefull mbr.
I can boot up a rescue disk, mount the partitions, read data stored and
use any programs installed. But I can't recover or create a new mbr with
dd if=/boot
un sysinstall, slice up the disk and install stuff. But on reboot
the system doesn't find a usefull mbr.
I can boot up a rescue disk, mount the partitions, read data stored and
use any programs installed. But I can't recover or create a new mbr with
dd if=/boot/mbr of=/dev/ad0
or wit
Hello all,
I just did a 5.3b7 "standard" install on the second partition of
an sata disk. The first partition had an ntfs file system on it,
with an mbr and standard microsoft boot mgr which reads boot.ini to
display the boot menu.
I specifically told the 5.3 install to leave the boot
Am Montag, 11. Oktober 2004 04:37 schrieb Jerry McAllister:
> > I tried to null out the MBR with the BETA7 fixit CD with the follwoing=20
> > command:
> > dd if=3D/dev/zero of=3D/dev/ad0 count=3D16
> >
> > After that fdsik still showed me a valid partition tab
>
> I tried to null out the MBR with the BETA7 fixit CD with the follwoing=20
> command:
> dd if=3D/dev/zero of=3D/dev/ad0 count=3D16
>
> After that fdsik still showed me a valid partition tabel!
> How? Does GEOM map the beginning of the raw device?
Was it getting
l boot system from FreeBSD (the one
> with which you have to choose with the "F" keys the OS
> you want to boot). But when I re-installed Windows,
> the MBR seems to be reseted so that now, I can only
> boot Windows (even if my FreeBSD is still on my
> machine, because I re-insta
But when I re-installed Windows,
the MBR seems to be reseted so that now, I can only
boot Windows (even if my FreeBSD is still on my
machine, because I re-installed Windows on the same
partition it was). Is there a way, with the FreeBSD CD
or something, to re-initialise the MBR so that I can
see bo
t; -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of pedro
> Sent: Monday, September 06, 2004 9:15 PM
> To: jason
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: MBR problem with FreeBSD 5.3 beta
>
> Ok,
>
>I just reinstalled
;
To: "pedro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "jason" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, September 06, 2004 11:01 PM
Subject: RE: MBR problem with FreeBSD 5.3 beta
> Pedro
> I do not understand what you mean by
> "I just reinstall
f pedro
Sent: Monday, September 06, 2004 9:15 PM
To: jason
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: MBR problem with FreeBSD 5.3 beta
Ok,
I just reinstalled the my "win boot device" and obviously,
windows
started to run again... although the horrible "beep" problem happens
everytime
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, September 06, 2004 2:51 AM
Subject: Re: MBR problem with FreeBSD 5.3 beta
> Pedro n/a wrote:
>
> > In the first time I rebooted my computer, after I've finished the
> > installation of this version, my motherboard started to beep and
On 06 Sep JJB wrote:
> > I experienced the same thing w/ beta-2
> > Just *before* putting an image back I discovered that beta-2 had
> > *changed* the LBA setting of my harddrive to another value.
> > Putting this back (manualy forcing the bios into using LBA), my
> > windows came back on.. Pfftt..
>> I could no longer "boot" my Windows. I did selected it from
BootMng
>> and it gave no response. Even though I tried to use FDISK /MBR to
>> rewrite the MBR, all my effords were in vain and I couldn't start
>> windows again.
>> Recently I've reinstall
my
> Windows. I did selected it from BootMng and it gave no response. Even
> though I tried to use FDISK /MBR to rewrite the MBR, all my effords were in
> vain and I couldn't start windows again.
> Recently I've reinstalled an old release version (trustworthy) but windows
&g
from BootMng and it gave no response.
Even though I tried to use FDISK /MBR to rewrite the MBR, all my
effords were in vain and I couldn't start windows again.
Recently I've reinstalled an old release version (trustworthy) but
windows still unable to boot.
Does anyone know anything that
it gave no response. Even though
I tried to use FDISK /MBR to rewrite the MBR, all my effords were in vain
and I couldn't start windows again.
Recently I've reinstalled an old release version (trustworthy) but windows
still unable to boot.
Does anyone know anything that could be help
Boot up the box using a recovery disk, err I guess its called a
startup floppy in the M$ world, and run at command prompt
fdisk /mbr
It would warn about non standard MBR and stuff but go through it. You
should be able to boot back into Win98.
But coming back to the FreeBSD Issue, If you have got
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Sun, 29 Aug 2004 18:47:14 -0400, fbsd_user
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I used an old ms/windows 98 PC to install 5.3 beta1 as a dual
>> bootable system. During the 5.3 install I created the boot
manager.
>> After the basic install I was able to boot 5.3 but did not
What is your slicing, errr partitioning scheme?
Regards
S.
On Sun, 29 Aug 2004 18:47:14 -0400, fbsd_user <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I used an old ms/windows 98 PC to install 5.3 beta1 as a dual
> bootable system. During the 5.3 install I created the boot manager.
> After the basic install I was
I used an old ms/windows 98 PC to install 5.3 beta1 as a dual
bootable system. During the 5.3 install I created the boot manager.
After the basic install I was able to boot 5.3 but did not test boot
win98. I then did a 5.3 kernel recompile and booted the kernel. I
then tried to boot win98 by pressi
On Wed Aug 11 20:59:08 2004 Karl Friedrich Gauss wrote:
I'm trying to install freebsd 4.10 on second hard-drive. On the first
hard drive is winXP. When I run sysinstall from a cd-rom, it seems to
be unable to modify the mdr of my first hard drive. I tried to go into
fdisk, the just quit and inst
I'm trying to install freebsd 4.10 on second hard-drive. On the first hard
drive is winXP. When I run sysinstall from a cd-rom, it seems to be unable
to modify the mdr of my first hard drive. I tried to go into fdisk, the just
quit and install boot manager on first hard disk. It doesn't work.
W
Hello list,
when I install FreeBSD alone on my computer the system is booting normally.
When I install Windows 98 before and then installing FreeBSD and boot
afterwards the computer, the FreeBSD-MBR offers the menue to boot the
systems, but every stroke on the keyboard causes a "beep&
Am Dienstag, 11. Mai 2004 16:35 schrieb Olga Zenkova:
> Hi!
> How can I use FreeBSD MBR to load other OS? Can't find
> needed doc.
man (8) boot is a good point to start and of course, like always, the online
handbook:
(http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handb
How can I use FreeBSD MBR to load other OS? Can't find
needed doc.
man fdisk
man boot0cfg
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Hi!
How can I use FreeBSD MBR to load other OS? Can't find
needed doc.
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>
> Sorry for being such a pest, my boss kept asking why my computer wasn't
> working, and I'm not ready to ready for him to know I've got BSD loaded.
> I was in panic mode because I couldn't get my Windows XP screens and
> applications to come up. I deeply apologize, I was finally able to read
>
Mark,
You might want to try booting the box with a Win98 Rescuse disk and
running 'fdisk /mbr'. This -should- re-window-ize the MBR. Then run
fdisk from the prompt and set the Windows partition as active. Reboot
and see if Windows boots normally. You will not see any indicati
Sorry for being such a pest, my boss kept asking why my computer wasn't
working, and I'm not ready to ready for him to know I've got BSD loaded.
I was in panic mode because I couldn't get my Windows XP screens and
applications to come up. I deeply apologize, I was finally able to read
all of your m
tion. Try the automatic repair first.
If that doesn't work, select the repair console and use the 'fixboot' and
'fixmbr' commands. If those don't work, boot from a Win9x
emergency/system floppy and use fdisk's 'fdisk /mbr' command. Then
reinstall the Free
-Original Message-
From: Jud [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, February 27, 2004 8:46 AM
To: HOLLOW, CHRISTOPHER; Mark Weisman
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Boot and MBR.
On Fri, 27 Feb 2004 10:50:03 -0500, "HOLLOW, CHRISTOPHER"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
&g
On Fri, 27 Feb 2004 10:50:03 -0500, "HOLLOW, CHRISTOPHER"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Jud wrote:
[snip]
> > 3. Install GAG, a free, easy and automagical boot loader. > http://gag.sourceforge.net/>.
> You can also Grub it up:
>
> http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/
> http://www.daemonnews.org/20
On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 11:45:18AM -0500, Robert Huff wrote:
>
> Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. writes:
>
> > I did this just last night; this seems to do it
> > (and I was a bad boy, just hacked it w/o looking
> > at the docs)
> >
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [/home/kadmin][10:26]
> > #cat
thaniel Weisman
Site Master
Mystic1.net
-Original Message-
From: Jerry McAllister [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, February 27, 2004 7:24 AM
To: Mark Weisman
Cc: Jerry McAllister; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Boot and MBR.
>
> Just out of curiosity what is the order in
Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. writes:
> I did this just last night; this seems to do it
> (and I was a bad boy, just hacked it w/o looking
> at the docs)
>
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [/home/kadmin][10:26]
> #cat /etc/ttys | grep gdm
> ttyv0 "/usr/X11R6/bin/gdm"cons25 on se
Matthew Seaman wrote:
On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 01:11:28PM -0900, Mark Weisman wrote:
The second question I have, is can I put the command startx into my
rc.conf file to have it boot directly into the x-server? Any help on
these two would be awesome. Thanks.
If you're a Gnome user, t
nd go on, you will
be presented with a screen that has three choices.
BootMgrInstall the FreeBSD Boot Manager
Standard Install a standard MBR (no boot manager)
None Leave the Master Boot Record Untouched
On this screen you want to choose the first one: BootMgr
Then use the
. I need my workstation back as soon as
possible. Thanks.
[snip]
I've got my primary drive divided in two partitions, one partition had
WindowsXP and the other has FreeBSD 5.1-Release on it. I had WindowsXP
installed and working until I put FreeBSD on the second partition and
had it take control of
On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 01:11:28PM -0900, Mark Weisman wrote:
> The second question I have, is can I put the command startx into my
> rc.conf file to have it boot directly into the x-server? Any help on
> these two would be awesome. Thanks.
Other people have described how you can arrange for star
On Thu, 26 Feb 2004 20:21:25 -0900, Mark Weisman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I've tried setting the MBR within fdisk from the FBSD side of the
house, however, it won't set. I go through all the motions, yet when it
goes to write it says that it can't write to drsk ad0.
I've got my primary drive divided in two partitions, one partition had
WindowsXP and the other has FreeBSD 5.1-Release on it. I had WindowsXP
installed and working until I put FreeBSD on the second partition and
had it take control of the MBR. I know that the other partition is still
bootable
>
> I've got my primary drive divided in two partitions, one partition had
> WindowsXP and the other has FreeBSD 5.1-Release on it. I had WindowsXP
> installed and working until I put FreeBSD on the second partition and
> had it take control of the MBR. I know that the othe
row and stays indefinitely. I can put WinXP back on the
computer if I have to, however, wouldn't that put the WinXP MBR on the
box? I've gone in under fdisk and set the slice bootable, however
nothing. I'm not sure how to install it now to just that slice. Any help
would be greatly ap
this thing online. I need my workstation back as soon as
possible. Thanks.
Res Ipsa Loquitor,
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-Original Message-
From: Mark Weisman
Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2004 4:59 PM
To: Jerry McAllister
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Boot an
> > The second question I have, is can I put the command startx into my
> > rc.conf file to have it boot directly into the x-server? Any help on
> > these two would be awesome. Thanks.
>
> I have not been successfule with that sort of thing. Anyway, I
> don't think just putting it in rc.conf w
I had WindowsXP
installed and working until I put FreeBSD on the second partition and
had it take control of the MBR. I know that the other partition is
still bootable if I can get a pointer to it, currently the boot menu
shows it
as:
F!: ??
F2: FreeBSD
How can I get that first menu choic
Hey all,
I've tried setting the MBR within fdisk from the FBSD side of the house, however, it
won't set. I go through all the motions, yet when it goes to write it says that it
can't write to drsk ad0. I then went into a dos boot using a Windows98 boot disk and
made the parti
On Tue, 27 Jan 2004 16:49:02 +0100 (?), Namik Dala wrote:
>>
> On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 09:10:51AM -0600, Brian H wrote:
> > Currently I have the BSD boot loader running in my MBR, but since I only
> > have BSD on my system I would like to replace it with the standard MBR. Is
Kjell B. wrote:
Kjell B. wrote:
I just installed FreeBSD 5.2-RELEASE (using the mini-install CD) on my
laptop which already had Win XP Home + Win XP Pro on it. During
partition definition I chose not to touch the MBR. (I wanted to make
use of Windows boot.ini for booting into FreeBSD
Kjell B. wrote:
> I just installed FreeBSD 5.2-RELEASE (using the mini-install CD) on my
> laptop which already had Win XP Home + Win XP Pro on it. During
> partition definition I chose not to touch the MBR. (I wanted to make
> use of Windows boot.ini for booting into FreeBSD.)
I just installed FreeBSD 5.2-RELEASE (using the mini-install CD) on my
laptop which already had Win XP Home + Win XP Pro on it. During partition
definition I chose not to touch the MBR. (I wanted to make use of Windows
boot.ini for booting into FreeBSD.) Nevertheless, whenever I boot I get
On Tue, 27 Jan 2004 17:10:35 +0100
Ruben de Groot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 04:49:02PM +0100, Namik Dala typed:
> > On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 09:10:51AM -0600, Brian H wrote:
> > > Currently I have the BSD boot loader running in my MBR, but since I
On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 04:49:02PM +0100, Namik Dala typed:
> On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 09:10:51AM -0600, Brian H wrote:
> > Currently I have the BSD boot loader running in my MBR, but since I only
> > have BSD on my system I would like to replace it with the standard MBR. Is
>
On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 09:10:51AM -0600, Brian H wrote:
> Currently I have the BSD boot loader running in my MBR, but since I only
> have BSD on my system I would like to replace it with the standard MBR. Is
> there a way with unix to safely reset the MBR?
This
dev=/dev/ad0 # ch
On Tuesday 27 January 2004 09:10 am, Brian H wrote:
> Currently I have the BSD boot loader running in my MBR, but since I only
> have BSD on my system I would like to replace it with the standard MBR. Is
> there a way with unix to safely reset the MBR?
I don't understand much abou
Currently I have the BSD boot loader running in my MBR, but since I only
have BSD on my system I would like to replace it with the standard MBR. Is
there a way with unix to safely reset the MBR?
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> Is there an "official" way to fix an MBR that has been overwritten such
> that there is still a valid partition table and valid MBR, but not the
> one you want?
>
> ...
>
> I was able to rig it back by going into the custom installation option
>
Is there an "official" way to fix an MBR that has been overwritten such
that there is still a valid partition table and valid MBR, but not the
one you want?
Like usual upon inserting a Windows CD and booting off it my MBR was
changed to that of the operating system for the CD; leaving
On Sun, 2003-09-28 at 04:17, Dan Strick wrote:
> On Sat, 27 Sep 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > There are 2 partitions on my hard drive, one for FreeBSD and the other
> > one for XP. I had to reinstall Windows and of course it blew the MBR up.
> > I've reinstalled F
On Sat, 27 Sep 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> There are 2 partitions on my hard drive, one for FreeBSD and the other
> one for XP. I had to reinstall Windows and of course it blew the MBR up.
> I've reinstalled FreeBSD's boot manager with:
> boot0cfg -B ad0
>
> Now wh
Hello,
There are 2 partitions on my hard drive, one for FreeBSD and the other
one for XP. I had to reinstall Windows and of course it blew the MBR up.
I've reinstalled FreeBSD's boot manager with:
boot0cfg -B ad0
Now when I boot, the manager lists the 2 OS, but when I choose to bo
On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 05:58:38PM -0400 or thereabouts, Paul Murphy wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Sep 2003 17:38:04 -0400
> > Matthew Seaman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Errr... That's a little excessive. The quick way to remove the
> > > FreeBSd boot
hardship, but is
> > > > there a"proper" way of doing what I want?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Just to clarify, upon booting I get:
> > > >
> > > > F1 FreeBSD
> > > > F5 Drive 1
> > > >
> > &
>
> > > F1 FreeBSD
> > > F5 Drive 1
> > >
> > > but I just want to boot straight into FreeBSD, no "dual-boot".
> >
> > I don't know why you are fretting about this prompt and momentarily
> > pause in the boot process. Also
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