Thanks Garrett --> Re: dual boot

Ultimate tettehs at yahoo.com
Fri Jul 8 16:38:31 GMT 2005


I got something from Igor which worked


> 1) Do as root "sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=16"
> 2) Start sysinstall
> 3) Go Configure->FDISK-> "OK" -> Q
> 4) It will ask if you wish boot manager
> 5) Select BootMgr





--- Garrett Cooper <youshi10 at u.washington.edu> wrote:

> Ultimate wrote:
> 
> ># fdisk -l
> >fdisk: illegal option --l
> >usage: fdisk ....etc
> >
> >--- Garrett Cooper <youshi10 at u.washington.edu>
> wrote:
> >
> >  
> >
> >>Ultimate wrote:
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >>>i have on my hard disk two OS. freebsd and win2k
> >>>i reinstalled the win2k and upon booting i made
> the
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>>partition with the freebsd active.
> >>>but now i can only have access to freebsd.
> >>>my win2k which i know is still there doesn't
> >>>get to load since freebsd boot0 doesn't register
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>it.
> >>    
> >>
> >>>i have tried to ways of getting it up
> >>>
> >>>1. boot0cfg -m 0x3 ad0
> >>>error msg:-  boot0cf: /dev/ad0: unknown or
> >>>incompatible boot code
> >>>
> >>>2. fdisk -B -b /boot/boot0 ad0
> >>>error msg:- fdisk: can't write fdisk partition
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>table:
> >>    
> >>
> >>>Operation not permitted
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>Obviously, I am a newbi ... so further
> illustration
> >>>with the solution would be appreciated
> >>>
> >>>Thankz
> >>>
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>    Could you copy your output from fdisk -l here
> >>please?
> >>Thanks,
> >>-Garrett
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> Sorry, I was thinking linux. Try -v.
> -Garrett
> 


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