Activate a BeOS partition after installing Windows
Posted on September 9th, 1997 by shacker
After installing/upgrading Windows, you’ll lose bootman. To get back into BeOS, you typically need a BeOS CD or boot floppy (once booted, just re-run „bootman“). If you don’t have a CD or boot floppy, this technique will get you back in business.
- Start the computer in MS-DOS mode
- Power on computer
- Press F8 several times after the memory count.
- Choose „
Command Prompt Only
“
- Run FDISK and set active partition to BeOS partition
C:/> FDISK
- Choose
Set active partition
- Set your BeOS partition as the active partition
- Restart the computer (and you will enter BeOS)
- Run bootman
- Launch a Terminal
$ bootman
- That’s it!
You can use this trick on most OSes that can set other partitions as active. You can use this technique from DOS 2.x on. I also believe you can use this method with WinNT, OS/2, and linux with their versions of fdisk.