fdisk -B -b /boot/boot0 device

Gert Cuykens gert.cuykens at gmail.com
Sun Apr 3 09:27:20 PDT 2005


On Apr 3, 2005 3:19 PM, Chris <racerx at makeworld.com> wrote:
> Gert Cuykens wrote:
> > On Apr 3, 2005 7:22 AM, Gert Cuykens <gert.cuykens at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >>On Mar 31, 2005 3:34 AM, Gert Cuykens <gert.cuykens at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>>Is boot0 a bootmanager ?
> >>>
> >>
> >>I booted cd2 went into fixit mode did
> >>
> >>mount /dev/ad1 /mnt
> >>cd /mnt/boot
> >>fdisk -B -b /dev/ad1 boot0
> >>
> >>fdisk ask me to write boot record i said yes
> >>fdisk ask me to write partition table i said no
> >>
> >>but i still dont have my freebsd bootmanager back and windows get loaded :(
> >>what did i do wrong ?
> >>
> >
> >
> > i did it again but i answert 2 times yes now
> > i have a boot manager this time but only f1 (windows) works when i
> > press f2 nothing happens ?
> 
> I believe the handbook covers dual booting. Please consider reading it a
> few times - as I mentioned before, the Handbook will answer most of your
> questions.
> 
> In addition, search this list for "other" methods of doing dual boots
> with Windows. It's been covered many times.
> 
> --
> Best regards,
> Chris
> 
> Real programmers can do octal, hexadecimal and
> binary math in their heads.
> 

The manual says sysinstall menu... boot manager... done I already did
that and it works fine but i want to learn how to do it in fixit mode
with fdisk -B b /dev/ad1 /mnt/boot/boot0

Windows is booting fine when i did that but freebsd doesnt boot what
did i forget to do ?


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