Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2007 00:11:03 +0300 From: Manolis Kiagias <sonicy@otenet.gr> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: repair a FreeBSD install Message-ID: <46632E67.8020405@otenet.gr> In-Reply-To: <20070603205608.GA67502@demeter.hydra> References: <20070603191700.GC66889@demeter.hydra> <466317C4.7060404@daleco.biz> <20070603194516.GF66889@demeter.hydra> <4663225B.6070905@otenet.gr> <20070603205608.GA67502@demeter.hydra>
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Chad Perrin wrote: > On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 11:19:39PM +0300, Manolis Kiagias wrote: > >> You can use the grub bootloader to load freebsd (assuming that nothing >> is damaged in the freebsd slice itself, and I believe it is intact in >> your case) >> It's been some time since I've done this myself (I am no longer dual >> booting FreeBSD on this machine), but I'll try to be as accurate as >> possible. >> Start your system, when it gets to the grub loader press "c" to get to >> the grub command line. >> Do you know what your freebsd slice is? Even if you don't, you can get >> this info from fdisk -l from debian. Or you could try searching in the >> command line. >> Type something like: >> >> root (hd0,2,a) >> > > GRUB doesn't recognize the partition type for some reason. There's > pretty clearly something wrong with the partition, I think. > > Is it possible that somehow the partition type was changed? Try as root an fdisk -l from your debian installation. Your freebsd should show up as partition type a5 (BSD/386) Otherwise you could use fdisk to fix this.
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