From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 18 13:56:10 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id NAA25846 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 18 Dec 1997 13:56:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from mail.iconz.co.nz (mail.iconz.co.nz [202.14.100.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA25789 for ; Thu, 18 Dec 1997 13:56:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jonc@pinnacle.co.nz) Received: from news.iconz.co.nz (status.gen.nz [202.14.100.1]) by mail.iconz.co.nz (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA256520882482147; Fri, 19 Dec 1997 10:55:47 +1300 (NZDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by news.iconz.co.nz (8.8.5/8.8.5) with UUCP id KAA05917; Fri, 19 Dec 1997 10:55:41 +1300 Received: from tui.pinnacle.co.nz (tui.pinnacle.co.nz [202.37.163.3]) by kakapo.pinnacle.co.nz (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA02562; Fri, 19 Dec 1997 10:18:05 +1300 (NZDT) Received: from localhost (jonc@localhost) by tui.pinnacle.co.nz (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id KAA04094; Fri, 19 Dec 1997 10:18:04 +1300 (NZDT) X-Authentication-Warning: tui.pinnacle.co.nz: jonc owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 19 Dec 1997 10:18:04 +1300 (NZDT) From: Jonathan Chen To: Brian Handy cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MBR Woes In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing