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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!inquo!hookup!news.mathworks.com!solaris.cc.vt.edu!usenet From: rschutt@vt.edu (Ryan Schutt) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: System Commander wiped out my BSD partition, HELP!! Date: Sun, 21 Jan 1996 04:55:47 GMT Organization: Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia Lines: 31 Message-ID: <4dsh2s$gn3@solaris.cc.vt.edu> References: <4djpkc$cn8@solaris.cc.vt.edu> <4dltn9$ggp@nntp.crl.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: rschutt.async.vt.edu NNTP-Posting-User: rewt X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 tim@lundeen.com (Tim Lundeen) wrote: >rschutt@vt.edu (Ryan Schutt) wrote: >>Recently I tried to install System Commander 2.24 so I didn't have to >>boot FreeBSD from a floppy all the time. System Commander detected my >>Win95 partition and BSD partition correctly, or so it seemed. Win95 >>boots up ok, but when I try FreeBSD, it says 'No bootable partition'. >I had the same problem, and called V Communications about it. System >Commander apparently has a problem with FreeBSD 2.1, and handles the >boot track incorrectly (thinks it's a "B5" when it should be an "A5"). >I've sent them the boot information, and they expected to have a fix >pretty quickly, but I haven't heard back yet. >Michael Krieg >Technical Support Manager >mkrieg@lundeen.com Well, I use FreeBSD 2.0.5, and I think it said A5 beside UNIX. Anyway, I reinsatlled a minimal configuration and immediately slapped System Commander on, and sure enough, I couldn't get back into FreeBSD. I reinstalled with booteasy and it seems to work fine. System Commander is eeeevil.... Ryan