On Sat, March 25, 2006 3:57 pm, Bob Bagwill wrote: > I successfully installed 1.5 to an external USB disk drive but during the > "install boot block" phase, it overwrote the partition table and bootblock > of my internal disk. I thought I was careful to select /dev/da0 not > /dev/ad0, > but who knows? I recovered the partitions with gpart, but WinXP still > doesn't boot successfully. :-( > > If I'm feeling masochistic, I could try the install again, and see if the > bsdinstaller did it.
If XP is still scrambled even after retrying, a MSDOS boot disk may be able to restore the MBR the way Windows wants it (fdisk /mbr), after which you would probably need to boot DragonFly from a CD and modify the bootloader with boot0cfg. Caveat: I haven't tried this.
