Date: Fri, 19 Dec 1997 10:18:04 +1300 (NZDT) From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@pinnacle.co.nz> To: Brian Handy <handy@sag.space.lockheed.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MBR Woes Message-ID: <Pine.SGI.3.96.971219101513.4076A-100000@tui.pinnacle.co.nz> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.96.971217190140.19866X-100000@sag.space.lockheed.com>
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On Wed, 17 Dec 1997, Brian Handy wrote:
> ARrghgh...I just installed FBSD on a new box, and I made the disk
> "dangerously dedicated." This in and of itself was fine, but I didn't
> make it bootable.
>
> Then I went in with sysinstall and flipped the boot flag and wrote it out,
> wondering if that would do it. It did, but in the process I got booteasy
> installed as well.
>
> NOW, what happens is I get "F1 . . . BSD", but hitting F1 gets me
> nowhere.
>
> Is there a quick way out of this conundrum, or am I going to have to blast
> the disk to get around this?
There isn't any quick way around this. When you wrote out booteasy,
you blasted the first few (essential) bytes of your root file-system
on your dangerously dedicated disk. Unless you're willing to fool
around with a file-system editor, it'd be easier to reinstall.
Cheers.
Jonathan Chen <jonc@pinnacle.co.nz>
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