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From: obrien@cs.ucdavis.edu (David E. O'Brien)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: System Commander wiped out my BSD partition, HELP!!
Date: 18 Jan 1996 18:59:33 GMT
Organization: University of California, Davis
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Tim Lundeen (tim@lundeen.com) wrote:
: rschutt@vt.edu (Ryan Schutt) wrote:
: 
: >Recently I tried to install System Commander 2.24 so I didn't have to
: >boot FreeBSD from a floppy all the time.  System Commander detected my
: >Win95 partition and BSD partition correctly, or so it seemed.  Win95
: >boots up ok, but when I try FreeBSD, it says 'No bootable partition'.
: 
: I had the same problem, and called V Communications about it. System
: Commander apparently has a problem with FreeBSD 2.1, and handles the
: boot track incorrectly (thinks it's a "B5" when it should be an "A5").
: I've sent them the boot information, and they expected to have a fix
: pretty quickly, but I haven't heard back yet.

I've got no problems with System Commander and FreeBSD 2.1-Release.  I got
my version in early 1995.  I believe it is version 1.34 or something like
that.  So maybe they could send you out a older version until they get the
current one working.

At that time SC didn't reconize the FreeBSD partition.  It says the type is
"Unknown".  But that doesn't keep SC from working.  It just looks funny if
you turn on Details on the boot menu.

-- David    (obrien@cs.ucdavis.edu)