From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 31 14:53:46 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 B1AF016A41F for ; Wed, 31 Aug 2005 14:53:46 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from isaac.grover@gmail.com) Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.200]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5070543D46 for ; Wed, 31 Aug 2005 14:53:46 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from isaac.grover@gmail.com) Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id z6so939600nzd for ; Wed, 31 Aug 2005 07:53:45 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=DJ810QPvovFAjPyl73zyiibFWAUffGqLEayhIhV9UaX5+3ByopQVtSU4F7l+MiLUSIthZsE+pVVRj2dbLiQnU5VjEgKMPaYUyIwT2y8LSgeA5nOpXAS2EtvLdsqRXk9Kde0PG/4K7x7ZAusv/5OdW/SekVlAzfztul7m2QVxSmI= Received: by 10.36.91.18 with SMTP id o18mr463258nzb; Wed, 31 Aug 2005 07:53:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.36.224.17 with HTTP; Wed, 31 Aug 2005 07:53:45 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 09:53:45 -0500 From: Isaac Grover To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Subject: Mounting a RHLinux 7.1 partition 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: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 14:53:46 -0000 Good morning everyone, Due to a hardware failure on my RHLinux 7.1 gateway, I have chosen to install FreeBSD 5.4 as my new gateway's operating system. The hard drive didn't die fortunately, as I did test it on another system to make sure it booted, and aside from kudzu complaining about some new and missing hardware, everything was there. Once I had FreeBSD 5.4 set up, I put the RHLinux drive in the FreeBSD machine as primary slave. Manually mounting the drive didn't seem to work since I could find which /dev/ entry the RHLinux drive ended up on, and of course fdisk wouldn't help for the same reason. So I pulled the RHLinux drive from the FreeBSD machine, set it up as primary master on another machine, and was going to do the necessary file copies over the network. However, now it boots up with the FreeBSD menu, giving me one option (F1) to boot FreeBSD, and pressing F1 yields a beep from the PC speaker, and no boot. What happened to my RHLinux MBR and how can I either: 1) restore the MBR or 2) retrieve my data? Thanks in advance, --=20 Isaac Grover, Owner Quality Computer Services of River Falls, Wisconsin Computer Consulting, Networking, Maintenance, and more. Commercial and Residential Inquiries Welcomed. Web: http://www.qcs-rf.com