From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 15 11:26:54 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00BF91065672 for ; Sat, 15 Mar 2008 11:26:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dangkm@gmail.com) Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.183]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D28A8FC17 for ; Sat, 15 Mar 2008 11:26:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dangkm@gmail.com) Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id u52so6342176pyb.10 for ; Sat, 15 Mar 2008 04:26:53 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; bh=7/R+3q8bX7NKA0SKXRpi5pjarFFw6jRUjqqIDO+QzHo=; b=vJjWxVmR0vObXOJ9IXce3FA929QL5nNzEvw8VNDxZP6V8C+XRRx+1Nr6sOAMWhfpQTOz71vhm9sZz2xqUbU9+3CXAsL3zV+LXh5elUKT8wXeoim4iasfARXlN8fbVc3WbiTj9reMXoMUF3x1YZpDFfqM3Z8HWSRT0Js66YWHqYs= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=K5N0wke37PSZZOkxlJNhDFhUMkgrLaLQbzT00h9xA0tOV5HoS88EzH4jze36Uu3Ff5PItxiKG0pqPRf/2QxN5V/DUE6jlzQKcBQ8j1sdrhdmSAMT0ZEAaUWeRJpgBtmuRpZb2OlhZSo/C6VJQI8IVNCxnPs+5vQjGMO4z7m9lnc= Received: by 10.65.44.5 with SMTP id w5mr25960903qbj.21.1205580412579; Sat, 15 Mar 2008 04:26:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.64.209.5 with HTTP; Sat, 15 Mar 2008 04:26:52 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <82f916c90803150426u6b6ef158sdfbac90d7008c8dc@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2008 11:26:52 +0000 From: "Kemian Dang" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Subject: System can not boot, seems can not find right partition after add new label X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2008 11:26:54 -0000 Hi,there: A short story is: When I boot my laptop, the screen tells me "invalida partition" and then give me the prompt "default: 0:ad(0,a)/boot/kernel/kernel". My FreeBSD / partition is at /dev/ad4s3a, so I tried "4:ad(3,a)/boot/kernel/kernel", but without lucky. Could someone tell me how should I give it the command, thanks in advance. Long story: Because my partition is nearly full, last night I delete a windows ntfs partition and try to use it under FreeBSD 7.0 Release as /home, I used to put /usr and /home together. I can not remember whether I do something stupid, I just dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad4s2 to write zero, then when I want to use bsdlabel to create new slice, but the new slice did not show up. So I tried sysinstall, still did not work. I thought it was because it used to be a ntfs partition, so I wanted to boot to windows and delete the partition. But it could not boot till now. There used to be a easyBCD soft to help me boot freebsd from the Windows Vista boot loader, but it did not appear, but a directly Invalid Partition.... Any suggestion appreciated. Best wishes, Kemian