cannot see Windows after installing FreeBSD

[Malcolm Kay]

On Sun, 26 Sep 2004 12:53 pm, Saccheen Martin wrote:
> Hi Malcolm,
>

Please try to avoid top posting. Instead embed your 
comments/questions at the apropriate part of the thread.

> The other computer is not on a network so I will try
> to type the outputs.
>
> # /sbin/fdisk ad0
> *****Working on device /dev/ad0/ ******
> Parameters extracted are
> cyl=787 heads 128 sectors/track=63 (8064 blks/cyl)
>
> parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are:
> cyl=787 heads=128 sectors/track=63. (8064 blks/cyl)
>
> Media sector size is 512
> Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1
> Information from DOS bootblock is :
> The data for partition 1 is
> sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) start 63, size
> 6346305 (3098Meg), flag 0
> beg: cyl 0/ head 1/ sector 1;
> end: cyl 786/ head 127/ sector 63
> The data for partition 2 is
> <UNUSED>
> The data for partition 3 is
> <UNUSED>
> The data for partition 4 is
> <UNUSED>
> #
>
>
>
> # /sbin/fdisk ad1
> *****Working on device /dev/ad1/ ******
> Parameters extracted are
> cyl=9729 heads 255 sectors/track=63
>
> Figures below won't work with Bios for partitions not
> in cyl 1. parameters to be used for BIOS calculations
> are: cyl=9729 heads=255 sectors/track=63. (16065
> blks/cyl)
>
> Media sector size is 512
> Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1
> Information from DOS bootblock is :
> The data for partition 1 is
> sysid 7,(OS/2 HPFS, NTFS, QNX-2 (16 bit) or Advanced
> Unix) start 63, size 156280257 (76308Meg), flag 80
> (active)
> beg: cyl 0/ head 1/ sector 1;
> end: cyl 1023/ head 254/ sector 63
> The data for partition 2 is
> <UNUSED>
> The data for partition 3 is
> <UNUSED>
> The data for partition 4 is
> <UNUSED>
> #
>

These look OK, i.e. as expected.

> --- Malcolm Kay <malcolm.kay at internode.on.net> wrote:
> > On Sun, 26 Sep 2004 12:23 am, Saccheen Martin wrote:
> > > Hi Malcolm,
> > > Thank you so much for replying. I did what you
> >
> > said
> >
> > > and I got the following:
> > >
> > > F1 FreeBSD
> > > F5 Drive 1
> > >
> > > When I press F5, I get:
> > > >>FreeBSD/i386 BOOT
> > >
> > > Default: 0:ad0(0,a)/boot/loader
> > > boot: _
> > >

If the boot process has really switched over to Drive 1 then
it is difficult (for me) to understand
where these messages come from -- unless perhaps some part of 
the FreeBSD installation has overwritten part of your windows 
installation. But I would have expected you would need to try
very hard to do this without changing the slice (in windows
parlance - partition) to a BSD type.

> > > What do I type at the boot: prompt to get windows?

I don't believe there is anything that will do that from here.

> > > Thanks
> >
> > Sorry, I don't understand how this has come about.
> > It would seem that somehow you have some partial
> > FreeBSD installation on Drive 1 (the Slave).
> >
> > It might help if you can post the outputs from
> >   # /sbin/fdisk ad0
> > and
> >   # /sbin/fdisk ad1
> > run as root under FreeBSD
> >
> > Malcolm

You could try installing a boot manager also on the slave drive
which should offer F1 Windows (or something similar) or F5 Drive 0;
when you get there from the initial F5 -> Drive 1

But I'm not optimistic -- or at least I believe you'll get the 
offer but F1 will still lead into never-never land.

I believe that what you have should have worked unless something
became corrupted along the way; but I am sure there are people out 
there whose understanding is much better than mine.

Malcolm