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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!news.radio.cz!newsbastard.radio.cz!news.radio.cz!CESspool!news.uoregon.edu!hammer.uoregon.edu!news-xfer.netaxs.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.apfel.de!news-fra1.dfn.de!news-ge.switch.ch!news.bme.hu!ludens.elte.hu!szoli From: szoli@ludens.elte.hu (Sebestyen Zoltan) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: FreeBSD crash Message-ID: <1997Apr4.162034.38998@ludens> Date: 4 Apr 97 16:20:34 +0100 Organization: Eotvos University, Budapest, Hungary Lines: 24 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:38457 Hello, I'm writing this letter, because I "succesfully" crashed my FreeBSd system with a Windows NT and an OPeNSTEP on my machine. I installed Caldera's OpenDOS to replace an existing version of it. I knew it would ruin Windows NT's bootstrapper, but I thought that as earlier I can correct it by the 'repair Windows NT' in the WinNT install or simply saving the C: partition's bootsector and, after the install replacing the original bootsector to its original place. I chose the second way. After doing it, the NT couldn't boot, because of "incorrect boot device". Then I tried to boot both of the BSD's (Openstep and FreeBSD) but the couldn't boot too, and it seems like, that FreeBSD has lost its disklabel infromation(I tried to fix it with the FreeBSD boot/fixit disks, but I didn't succeed, I even couldn't mount the DOS partition). I use a FreeBSD RELEASE-2.1.5. The harddisk is a QUANTUM BigFoot 2.5G HD, with three partitions, the first is a DOS/VFAT partition for OpenDOS/Windows NT, the seconds is for FreeBSD, there are / (root), /usr, /var (BSD) partititions in it, the third is for OpenStep. I'd be very thanksful if anyone could help me. Thanks in advance, Zoltan Sebestyen