Re: MBR screwed up
On Wed, 12 Mar 2003 20:29:26 +0100 (CET), Dirk-Willem van Gulik wrote: On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, dick hoogendijk wrote: master drive, but what do I do to get rid of the old fbsd loader on the second and get a good windows-xp one? On older windozes one would boot from floppy and do a format.exe c: /mbr I don't know if that will do it. I've always used 'fdisk /mbr'. afaik, you can only put a mbr on drive 0 --- doug reynolds | the maverick | [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
MBR screwed up
Neede help urgently. Screwed up my MBR's I have two IDE disks. On the first (master) I have FreeBSD and on the second (slave) Win-XP (with an old fbsd boot0 (mbr). I tried to do a wi fixmbr in win-xp but that changed teh mbr on the first drive, which is inaccesible now ;-(( I want a freebsd bootloader on the first and want to be able to boot windows xp on the second too. How do I aquire this? I can do fdisk -B -b /boot/boot0 /dev/ad0 for a bootloader on the master drive, but what do I do to get rid of the old fbsd loader on the second and get a good windows-xp one? -- dick -- http://www.nagual.st/ -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE ++ Running FreeBSD 4.7 ++ Debian GNU/Linux (Woody) To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: MBR screwed up
On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, dick hoogendijk wrote: master drive, but what do I do to get rid of the old fbsd loader on the second and get a good windows-xp one? On older windozes one would boot from floppy and do a format.exe c: /mbr Dw To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: MBR screwed up
On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, Dirk-Willem van Gulik wrote: On older windozes one would boot from floppy and do a format.exe c: /mbr Actually - my memory is fading; that should be fdisk. And a quick man check on WinXP yeilds 'fixmbr' to be the equivalent: fixmbr device name fixmbr \Device\HardDisk0 without a device name it will write to the boot device. See also the man page for 'fixboot'. Dw To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: MBR screwed up
On 12 Mar Dirk-Willem van Gulik wrote: fixmbr device name fixmbr \Device\HardDisk0 without a device name it will write to the boot device. See also the man page for 'fixboot'. Oke, will look into it tomorrow. At the moment I get: F1 FreeBSD F5 Disk 1 And on disk1: F1 (= windows XP) F5 Disk 0 If I press F5 and then F1 windows XP does not start, but the system reboots (and that's weird..) I guess somewhere things were mixed up.. -- dick -- http://www.nagual.st/ -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE ++ Running FreeBSD 4.7 ++ Debian GNU/Linux (Woody) To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
