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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