On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 09:49:08PM -0500, George Georgalis wrote:
> I have a hosed system.
> 
> It has FreeBSD, WinXP and NetBSD on slice 1, 2 and 3; plus
> Linux on some extended partitions. The last OS I installed
> was WinXP. I don't really care about the Linux install,
> but I'd like to get this thing booting slice 1, 2 or 3.
> 
> I tried "fdisk -B wd0" so I could boot into the other non XP
> slices, but it only sees Linux as bootable, and that doesn't
> work.

Use 'fdisk -u', edit the details for partition 'a', press enter to
avoid changing the sizes, and add a (short) menu entry for the partition.
Rinse and repeat for the other partitions.

fdisk -B only changes the bootselect deafult and timeout these days.

	David

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