From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 26 17:11:08 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E957816A4CF for ; Sat, 26 Jun 2004 17:11:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: from home.mnet.bg (home.mnet.bg [193.110.223.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2941143D39 for ; Sat, 26 Jun 2004 17:11:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dpenev@mnet.bg) Received: from localhost (home [127.0.0.1]) by home.mnet.bg (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88D7B3B2F1; Sat, 26 Jun 2004 20:10:45 +0300 (EEST) Received: from venus.dpsca.bg (ip220-81.mnet.bg [193.110.220.81]) (using TLSv1 with cipher EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA (168/168 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by home.mnet.bg (Postfix) with ESMTP id C01913B2E7; Sat, 26 Jun 2004 20:10:44 +0300 (EEST) Received: from freebsd.vmware.dpsca.bg (freebsd.vmware.dpsca.bg [192.168.2.3]) by venus.dpsca.bg (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i5QHDFOK031920; Sat, 26 Jun 2004 20:13:15 +0300 (EEST) Received: (from dpenev@localhost) by freebsd.vmware.dpsca.bg (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) id i5QHBkMb000946; Sat, 26 Jun 2004 20:11:46 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from dpenev) Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2004 20:11:45 +0300 From: Dancho Penev To: Gautam Gopalakrishnan Message-ID: <20040626171145.GB900@freebsd.vmware.dpsca.bg> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="2B/JsCI69OhZNC5r" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p9 (Debian GNU/Linux) at mail.mnet.bg cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Unable to boot FreeBSD (dual-boot) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2004 17:11:09 -0000 --2B/JsCI69OhZNC5r Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 12:25:24AM +1000, Gautam Gopalakrishnan wrote: >Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2004 00:25:24 +1000 >From: Gautam Gopalakrishnan >To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >Subject: Unable to boot FreeBSD (dual-boot) > >Hi, Hello > >I have a dual boot with Windows 2000 (ad0s1 is windows, ad0s2 is >FreeBSD 5.2.1). I trashed a working dual-boot somehow. Now the >problem is, I get the boot menu listing both Windows and FreeBSD, >but only Windows boots (with F1). Pressing F2 for FreeBSD just >gives a beep.I booted from the fixit cd and ran the commands seen >in the handbook: > ># fdisk -B -b /hd/boot/boot0 /dev/ad0 ># disklabel -B -b /hd/boot/boot0 /dev/ad0s2 For label use /boot/boot file, /boot/boot0 is for mbr. > >/hd is the temporary directory I created to mount /dev/ad0s2a, >so I guess my slice is still ok. > >Please help! > >Thanks >Gautam >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.or= g" > --=20 Dancho Penev GnuPG public key: http://www.mnet.bg/~dpenev/gnupg.asc Key fingerprint: E88D 8B7B 3EF6 E9C8 C5D2 7554 2AA8 C347 71A1 4277 --2B/JsCI69OhZNC5r Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFA3a5RKqjDR3GhQncRAtTeAKCtYTPlxawuBMU0AE7sLk/Q9qC2nwCeJZwm qjjIUX1tRbku9ohhWysORfo= =2x2p -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --2B/JsCI69OhZNC5r--