Thanks for your answer.
Very good possibility.
Is this fixable or should i retrieve the data from the disk and burn it on
cd and start over again?
Bye,

Reinoud.

On Fri, 3 Dec 1999, Manuel Bouyer wrote:

> One possibility is that  NetBSD and FreeBSD were not installed with the same
> BIOS geometry. This would confuse boot programs, reinstalling boot manager
> several time may have messed it up a bit more ...
> 
> On Fri, Dec 03, 1999 at 01:59:20PM +0100, Reinoud Koornstra wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > First a description of what is going on and what happened.
> > I have a i386 computer with two ide harddisks.
> > I have on the second harddisk three partitions. The first two contain
> > freebsd and the last contains netbsd.
> > All were booting fine with the freebsd bootmanager (on the
> > second harddisk).
> > Yesterday i decided that a netbsd bootmanager on the second hd would be
> > nicer, cause i also
> > used a netbsd bootmanager on the first harddisk.
> > Installing the netbsd bootmanager on the second hd went fine.
> > But.... after rebooting....... freebsd didnt boot anymore.
> > It also doesnt boot anymore from floppy. I concluded that the bootloader
> > is broken or gone or something. 
> > Now how is that possible after just installing the netbsd bootmanager on
> > the second hd?
> > Today i thought lets just use again the freebsd bootmanager again.
> > So i installed that one on the second harddisk.
> > AFter installing freebsd still doesnt boot (is logical according to what
> > is wrote)..... but......... also NetBsd doesnt boot anymore!!!
> > Okay..... the good thing is that i am able to boot netbsd still from
> > floppy and point out to wd1a:netbsd. That works fine and netbsd boots.
> > Finally i thought to put the netbsd bootmanager back on the second
> > harddisk to be able to boot netbsd properly.
> > However......... also the netbsd bootmanager cant boot netbsd anymore!
> > I reinstalled the netbsd bootmanager twice to make sue something was
> > wrong. I can type F3 to boot the netbsd (cause netbsd is on the third
> > partition, normally that is). But when i try it now i just see after
> > typing F3 "3" on the next line and nothing works....
> > Nothing is booted.
> > I dont know what to do anymore.
> > The only way to acces netbsd one the second hd is with the install flop.
> > >From there it boots fine if you say: boot wd1a:netbsd
> > I really dont know what i can do to fix this.
> > Yes yes, i know i tryed to many things and many not very smart things....
> > But i dont understand..... cause i didnt destroy the partitions... they
> > are all there working fine... i just changed the mbr some times.
> > Can someone help me out here?
> > Bye,
> > 
> > Reinoud.
>