Re: Help! I can't boot my Windows partition any more!

2015-10-01 Thread Ottavio Caruso
On 30 September 2015 at 23:47, Ottavio Caruso wrote: > Hello, > > I used to dual boot Windows 7 and NetBSD. > > This is my fdisk: > > > Disk: /dev/rwd0d > NetBSD disklabel disk geometry: > cylinders: 155061, heads: 16, sectors/track: 63 (1008 sectors/cylinder) >

Re: Help! I can't boot my Windows partition any more!

2015-10-01 Thread Robert Elz
Date:Thu, 1 Oct 2015 13:47:38 +0100 From:Ottavio Caruso Message-ID: | At least can anybody advise if I can mark the partition active from | within NetBSD? Yes,

Re: Help! I can't boot my Windows partition any more!

2015-10-01 Thread Robert Elz
Date:Thu, 1 Oct 2015 19:38:03 + From:Ottavio Caruso Message-ID:

Re: Help! I can't boot my Windows partition any more!

2015-10-01 Thread Ottavio Caruso
On 1 October 2015 at 08:43, Robert Elz wrote: > Ottavio: Use the (NetBSD) fdisk, have it update the mbr boot, and install the > boot selector, you'll know you're doing the right one when it asks for a label > for each partition (a boot name). Don't change geometries, or

Re: Help! I can't boot my Windows partition any more!

2015-10-01 Thread Ottavio Caruso
On 1 October 2015 at 13:24, Robert Elz wrote: > | Would "fdisk -B wd0" give me the option to select a bootable partition? > > Yes. Just do that and install the bootselector, and you'll be back to > dual boot. Sorry for being pedantic Robert, you said "just do that" and

Re: Help! I can't boot my Windows partition any more!

2015-10-01 Thread Thomas Mueller
from MLH: > I have no idea if it is related, but at least on both of my Netbsd > 7 systems, both amd64 and i386, installboot appears to destroy the > bootblock on at least the usb drives I have tried, rendering those > drives unbootable. I ran out of expendible external drives and > really don't

Re: Help! I can't boot my Windows partition any more!

2015-10-01 Thread Robert Elz
Date:Wed, 30 Sep 2015 17:41:51 -0700 From:Andy Ruhl Message-ID:

Re: Help! I can't boot my Windows partition any more!

2015-09-30 Thread Andy Ruhl
On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 3:47 PM, Ottavio Caruso wrote: > Hello, > > I used to dual boot Windows 7 and NetBSD. > > This is my fdisk: > > > Disk: /dev/rwd0d > NetBSD disklabel disk geometry: > cylinders: 155061, heads: 16, sectors/track: 63 (1008 sectors/cylinder) >

Re: Help! I can't boot my Windows partition any more!

2015-09-30 Thread MLH
> Hello, > > I used to dual boot Windows 7 and NetBSD. ... > Now the usb drive is unbootable, therefore I can only access NetBSD. I have no idea if it is related, but at least on both of my Netbsd 7 systems, both amd64 and i386, installboot appears to destroy the bootblock on at least the usb