Re: MBR screwed up
On Sun, 16 Mar 2003 10:30:02 -0500, Doug Reynolds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 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 Changing boot order in the bios will make whatever drive you like "drive 0" (or at any rate the first hard drive), I think. If you boot with the WinXP installer disk and choose to repair manually, you can get a list of repair commands (don't remember how, precisely - type "help," perhaps?), among which are a couple of relevant ones that allow you to put a "WinXP" MBR on the drive. Jud 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 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
Re: MBR screwed up
On 12 Mar Dirk-Willem van Gulik wrote: > fixmbr > 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
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 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 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
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
