I'm not at the box now , but -- how would the geometry have changed? The
only thing I could think was that maybe it got mis-reported to the
installer and hence the installer didn't put in a correct MBR .. ..

 The entire thing seems wierd to me, cuz the NetBSD partition works like a
charm (and I'm really impressed with NetBSD so far.)

 An odd thing I noticed, when I do a mbrlabel<i believe, the program to
generate temporary disklabels from the disks MBR> the machine starts
giving lots of errors and requires a reboot.

 Do you know any way of rebuilding a MBR by hand?

simian at replic d0t net

On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Manuel Bouyer wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 02:22:04PM -0800, Bri wrote:
> >
> >  Here's the situation, 1 windows fat32 partition (around 40gb), 2/3 gb
> > empty on disk
> >
> >  I install NetBSD on the unused portion (left a few megs slack space
> > even), install boot manager, everything there looks kosher - NetBSD boots
> > up just fine
> >
> >  When I try and boot the windows partiton it gives me "Invalid System
> > Disk."
> >
> >  I have deleted the NetBSD partition, set the win/dos one active, fdisk
> > /mbr'd it, reinstalled the boot loader, reinstalled windows -- all to no
> > avail.
> >
> >  Suggestions? I can still see all the data on the windows partition just
> > fine, just it can't boot now for some reason.
>
> Maybe the disk's geometry has changed ? What does NetBSD's fdisk say
> about it ?
>
> --
> Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
> --
>