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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news-peer.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!hunter.premier.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!arclight.uoregon.edu!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail 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 Organization: Coverform Ltd. Lines: 27 Message-ID: <51jjja$c1@anorak.coverform.lan> References: <323C9151.41C67EA6@mindspring.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.coverform.lan X-NNTP-Posting-Host: awfulhak.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] 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....