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From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Can't boot off second disk anymore.
Date: 16 Sep 1996 14:10:02 +0100
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Ron Bolin (rlb@mindspring.com) wrote:
: Say,

: I had to re-install WINNT on sd0, while I had FBSD 2.1.5R on sd1.
: I was using OSBS to boot from sd0 or sd1 (WINNT or FBSD). After
: re-installing
: WINNT on sd0, I can no longer boot sd1 FBSD using OSBS. I must use a
: floppy.
: Can some kind sole go through the requirements for setting up the
: disklabel
: on the second disk and account for why it will not longer boot. Did the
: boot
: prompt for FBSD actually reside on sd0?  I tried disklabel -B sd1, but
: it won't
: boot like it did when I did a new install on sd1. I don;t wish to do a
: re-install.
: I would rather understand this process, as I know it will happen again.

Boot DOS from NT and run OS-BS.  Indeed, NT has clobbered your master
boot record on sd0.  Microsoft still doesn't understand that there is
such thing as a machine with more than their OS.

OS-BS sits on sector 0 of sd0 (osbs20b8 also uses up a few more sectors).

--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....