Subject: howto restore boot sector?
To: None <port-i386@netbsd.org>
From: baldyeti <e_fax_t@hotmail.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 01/08/2005 17:43:24
Hello list,

I have recently installed NetBSD 2.0 on a celeron 400
machine. The OS lives in a 1 Gb primary partition,
and was working fine afaict. While trying to restore
the NT boot sequence on this system (using the win2000
recovery console), I made the mistake of running
"fixboot" without argument, which apparently overwrote
the boot sector of either the 1st or the active primary
partition, which was the NetBSD one. Now if I mark that
partition as active, all I get is a complain about ntldr
not being present. I am wondering if there's an easy way
using the install boot floppy to restore just the boot
sector without completely re-installing.

Thanks in advance,

--bald