{"id":630,"date":"1997-09-09T01:36:29","date_gmt":"1997-09-09T09:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.birdhouse.org\/betips\/?p=630"},"modified":"1997-09-09T01:36:29","modified_gmt":"1997-09-09T09:36:29","slug":"activate-a-beos-partition-after-installing-windows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/?p=630","title":{"rendered":"Activate a BeOS partition after installing Windows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After installing\/upgrading Windows, you&#8217;ll lose bootman. To get back into BeOS, you typically need a BeOS CD or boot floppy (once booted, just re-run &#8222;bootman&#8220;). If you don&#8217;t have a CD or boot floppy, this technique will get you back in business.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Start the computer in MS-DOS mode\n<ul>\n<li>Power on computer\n<li>Press F8 several times after the memory count.\n<li>Choose &#8222;<code>Command Prompt Only<\/code>&#8220; <\/ul>\n<li>Run FDISK and set active partition to BeOS partition\n<ul>\n<li><code>C:\/> FDISK<\/code>\n<li>Choose <code>Set active partition<\/code>\n<li>Set your BeOS partition as the active partition <\/ul>\n<li>Restart the computer (and you will enter BeOS)\n<li>Run bootman\n<ul>\n<li>Launch a Terminal\n<li><code>$ bootman<\/code> <\/ul>\n<li>That&#8217;s it! <\/ul>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After installing\/upgrading Windows, you&#8217;ll lose bootman. To get back into BeOS, you typically need a BeOS CD or boot floppy (once booted, just re-run &#8222;bootman&#8220;). If you don&#8217;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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[8],"class_list":["post-630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}