recover HD boot mbr
I used an old ms/windows 98 PC to install 5.3 beta1 as a dual bootable system. During the 5.3 install I created the boot manager. After the basic install I was able to boot 5.3 but did not test boot win98. I then did a 5.3 kernel recompile and booted the kernel. I then tried to boot win98 by pressing F1 key and the boot process just hangs. Rebooting and pressing F2 key for 5.3 also now hangs. Question = Is there any way to fix this problem without killing the win98 partition? I was thinking of installing this weeks 5.3 beta2 to see if that would correct the problem. Any suggestions sure would help. Thanks ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: recover HD boot mbr
What is your slicing, errr partitioning scheme? Regards S. On Sun, 29 Aug 2004 18:47:14 -0400, fbsd_user [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I used an old ms/windows 98 PC to install 5.3 beta1 as a dual bootable system. During the 5.3 install I created the boot manager. After the basic install I was able to boot 5.3 but did not test boot win98. I then did a 5.3 kernel recompile and booted the kernel. I then tried to boot win98 by pressing F1 key and the boot process just hangs. Rebooting and pressing F2 key for 5.3 also now hangs. Question = Is there any way to fix this problem without killing the win98 partition? I was thinking of installing this weeks 5.3 beta2 to see if that would correct the problem. Any suggestions sure would help. Thanks ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Subhro Sankha Kar School of Information Technology Block AQ-13/1 Sector V ZIP 700091 India ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: recover HD boot mbr
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 29 Aug 2004 18:47:14 -0400, fbsd_user [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I used an old ms/windows 98 PC to install 5.3 beta1 as a dual bootable system. During the 5.3 install I created the boot manager. After the basic install I was able to boot 5.3 but did not test boot win98. I then did a 5.3 kernel recompile and booted the kernel. I then tried to boot win98 by pressing F1 key and the boot process just hangs. Rebooting and pressing F2 key for 5.3 also now hangs. Question = Is there any way to fix this problem without killing the win98 partition? I was thinking of installing this weeks 5.3 beta2 to see if that would correct the problem. Any suggestions sure would help. Thanks What is your slicing, errr partitioning scheme? Regards S. 10GB ATA HD, 50% win98 followed by 50% FreeBSD ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: recover HD boot mbr
Boot up the box using a recovery disk, err I guess its called a startup floppy in the M$ world, and run at command prompt fdisk /mbr It would warn about non standard MBR and stuff but go through it. You should be able to boot back into Win98. But coming back to the FreeBSD Issue, If you have got two partitions (as you stated) you should not be having any F2. Could you just double check? Regards S. On Sun, 29 Aug 2004 22:50:49 -0400, JJB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 29 Aug 2004 18:47:14 -0400, fbsd_user [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I used an old ms/windows 98 PC to install 5.3 beta1 as a dual bootable system. During the 5.3 install I created the boot manager. After the basic install I was able to boot 5.3 but did not test boot win98. I then did a 5.3 kernel recompile and booted the kernel. I then tried to boot win98 by pressing F1 key and the boot process just hangs. Rebooting and pressing F2 key for 5.3 also now hangs. Question = Is there any way to fix this problem without killing the win98 partition? I was thinking of installing this weeks 5.3 beta2 to see if that would correct the problem. Any suggestions sure would help. Thanks What is your slicing, errr partitioning scheme? Regards S. 10GB ATA HD, 50% win98 followed by 50% FreeBSD -- Subhro Sankha Kar School of Information Technology Block AQ-13/1 Sector V ZIP 700091 India ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
