FreeBSD & Windows Boot?

Gerard Seibert gerard at seibercom.net
Mon Feb 13 14:37:01 PST 2006


Jerry McAllister wrote:

> > 
> > If for what ever reason the FreeBSD boot loader does load windows, is 
> > there a way to repair the windows boot sector?  I remember trying this 
> > in the past with ill results.
> 
> Probably depends on what is wrong.
> Probably there is some MS utility that can repair it.
> Someone else will have to talk the MS stuff.
> 
> Make sure you understand the different parts. 
> Your terminology wanders a bit.
> 
> The FreeBSD MBR and not the boot loader would be the only part
> that has anything to do with booting a Windos or any non FreeBSD OS.
> I think that is what you mean by boot loader though.
> The MBR only just recognized that the slice is bootable and reads
> in the boot sector and turns over control to it.   It does nothing
> else with the Win sector or loader.
> 
> ////jerry


I could be wrong, but I believe using the MS version of 'fdisk' fixes
the problem. Run this command from the C: prompt:

fdisk /mbr

See if that corrects the problem.

-- 
Gerard


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