Re: emergency: can't boot! please help

2003-08-26 Thread Jud
On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 20:45:46 +0200, "Siegbert Baude" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: [snip] > - If there is no partition table left on disk, things are more > difficult. Do you know how (which tool, which size) you partititioned > your disk in the first place? If yes, then you always have the chance to

Re: emergency: can't boot! please help

2003-08-24 Thread Siegbert Baude
Hi, Thanks to Luke's suggestion, I'm currently attempting to load Linux over FBSD to then attempt to mount the NTFS drive, which may allow me to see the contents of that drive, to either copy them elsewhere to salvage the data, or to determine whether restoring it is possible. If you (or anyone o

Re: emergency: can't boot! please help

2003-08-24 Thread OZ
--- Alexander Pohoyda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Well, I read that to mean that if I installed > > /boot/boot0 with sysinstall, THEN i should copy > > /boot/boot0 to C:\bootsect.bsd. > > Incorrect. That's what you were supposed to do: > > /boot/boot0 needs t

Re: emergency: can't boot! please help

2003-08-24 Thread Alexander Pohoyda
OZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Well, I read that to mean that if I installed > /boot/boot0 with sysinstall, THEN i should copy > /boot/boot0 to C:\bootsect.bsd. Incorrect. That's what you were supposed to do: > /boot/boot0 needs to be installed using sysinstall by > selecting the FreeBSD boot m

Re: emergency: can't boot! please help

2003-08-24 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 16:38, OZ wrote: > --- Malcolm Kay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, 23 Aug 2003 20:09, OZ wrote: > > > Hi, I've got a massive problem and I need urgent > > > > help, > > > > > please. > > > > > > Trying to set up a dual boot, and I've rendered my > > > primary master (whic

Re: emergency: can't boot! please help

2003-08-24 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Sat, 23 Aug 2003 20:09, OZ wrote: > Hi, I've got a massive problem and I need urgent help, > please. > > Trying to set up a dual boot, and I've rendered my > primary master (which has windows xp) un-bootable. > > On this page: > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#N