Re: recover HD boot mbr

2004-08-29 Thread Subhro
Boot up the box using a recovery disk, err I guess its called a startup floppy in the M$ world, and run at command prompt fdisk /mbr It would warn about non standard MBR and stuff but go through it. You should be able to boot back into Win98. But coming back to the FreeBSD Issue, If you have got t

RE: recover HD boot mbr

2004-08-29 Thread JJB
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sun, 29 Aug 2004 18:47:14 -0400, fbsd_user > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I used an old ms/windows 98 PC to install 5.3 beta1 as a dual >> bootable system. During the 5.3 install I created the boot manager. >> After the basic install I was able to boot 5.3 but did not

Re: recover HD boot mbr

2004-08-29 Thread Subhro
What is your slicing, errr partitioning scheme? Regards S. On Sun, 29 Aug 2004 18:47:14 -0400, fbsd_user <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I used an old ms/windows 98 PC to install 5.3 beta1 as a dual > bootable system. During the 5.3 install I created the boot manager. > After the basic install I was

recover HD boot mbr

2004-08-29 Thread fbsd_user
I used an old ms/windows 98 PC to install 5.3 beta1 as a dual bootable system. During the 5.3 install I created the boot manager. After the basic install I was able to boot 5.3 but did not test boot win98. I then did a 5.3 kernel recompile and booted the kernel. I then tried to boot win98 by pressi