MBR blown away

[Peter]

--- Jerry McAllister <jerrymc at clunix.cl.msu.edu> wrote:

> > 
> > 
> > --- Jerry McAllister <jerrymc at clunix.cl.msu.edu> wrote:
> > 

> > > > I added a slice to a single hard drive dual-boot (windows) system
> and
> > > now
> > > > I guess that scrambled my MBR.  I get three options from the
> FreeBSD
> > > (5.4)
> > > > boot manager:
> > > > 
> > > > 1. DOS
> > > > 2. FreeBSD
> > > > 3. FreeBSD
> > > > 
> > > > I can boot to FreeBSD (the new slice is fine) by choosing option 3
> but
> > > the
> > > > windows/dos option is fried.
> > > 
> > > The MBR itself looks OK.   According to that piece of menu you
> > > posted, you just added another bootable slice.  So, there are now
two
> > > bootable FreeBSD slices and one bootable Microsloth slice.   

> > Correct, I chose '1' and then the system hangs (no messages/errors).

> > I simply converted a 6GB FAT32 partition into a UFS2 slice (chopped
> > into three 2GB partitions).

> Well, I still am guessing the problem lies in individual slices' boot 
> sectors and not the MBR.  just try and set the bootable flags in the 
> slices the way you think they should be and see what happens.   

In sysinstall I toggle bootable but it puts an 'A' which seems to mean
auto-bootable. 
I can only set one 'A' here.

--
Peter


	

	
		
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