Actually that didn't really mean anything special. I just had a very small partition where WINDOWS wrote the boot stuff, I think it was about 200MB (but it only uses aprox. 3MB).
Sorry for the missunderstood :) ----- Original Message ----- From: "JJB" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 reinstalled the my "win boot device" and obviously, windows > started to run again." > What is a win boot device? > > Are you trying to say you reinstalled windows from scratch using the > MS/Windows install cd? > That you lost your old windows partition and all the data in it? > > Or that this win boot device thing fixed your hard drive so the > FreeBSD operating system boot menu F1 boots your windows system and > F2 boots your 5.3 FreeBSD system? > > > -----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 the my "win boot device" and obviously, > windows > started to run again... although the horrible "beep" problem happens > everytime I reboot my pc from FreeBSD (whenever I boot my pc from > windows, > it resets normally!). According to my motherboard manual, the beep > sound > matches the one that is described as no DRAM installed or detected. > As told by one of you guys here, about the LBA, I just couldn't > find any > option in my bios to change this... :( > I tried to load my bios default configuration (in order to clear > whatever the FreeBSD instalation has done to it) but the problem > remained... > Does anyone have any idea about what to do? > > I just got happy when I saw you answered my question, > Thank you. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "jason" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Pedro n/a" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: <[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 > I > > > didn't know what to do. > > > After reseting the computer I realized that 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 reinstalled an old release version (trustworthy) > but > > > windows still unable to boot. > > > Does anyone know anything that could be helpful? > > > > > > Thanks in advance, > > > Pedro > > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > > MSN Messenger: converse com os seus amigos online. > > > http://messenger.msn.com.br > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > > > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > > > > Can you boot freebsd? What was the beep code, you mb manual will > tell > > what it means. Sounds like a hardware problem with the beeping. > Try > > looking for a boot disk image online and boot windows from that. > I have > > 5.3beta3 from yesterday, no problems. > > _______________________________________________ > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > > > _______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > > _______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
