From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 31 18:49:16 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 61A3216A41F for ; Wed, 31 Aug 2005 18:49:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from garys@opusnet.com) Received: from opusnet.com (mail.opusnet.com [209.210.200.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D9CF43D46 for ; Wed, 31 Aug 2005 18:49:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from garys@opusnet.com) Received: from localhost.localhost [70.98.246.232] by opusnet.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-8.05) id AB9F57340030; Wed, 31 Aug 2005 11:49:03 -0700 Received: from localhost.localhost (localhost.localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localhost (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j7VIoFRJ009346; Wed, 31 Aug 2005 11:50:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from garys@opusnet.com) Received: (from jojo@localhost) by localhost.localhost (8.13.3/8.13.3/Submit) id j7VIoA0A009343; Wed, 31 Aug 2005 11:50:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from garys@opusnet.com) To: Isaac Grover References: From: garys@opusnet.com (Gary W. Swearingen) Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 11:50:10 -0700 In-Reply-To: (Isaac Grover's message of "Wed, 31 Aug 2005 09:53:45 -0500") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) XEmacs/21.4.17 (Jumbo Shrimp, berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 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 18:49:16 -0000 Isaac Grover writes: > 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. Sorry, but FreeBSD doesn't just install MBRs willy-nilly. After you put the Linux drive in the FreeBSD box you must have manually run some program that installed a new MBR on the Linux drive, and there's only a few likely possibilites (which you should remember using): sysinstall (the OS installer/upgrader), fdisk, boot0cfg, bsdlabel/disklabel. > What happened to my RHLinux MBR and how can I either: 1) restore the > MBR or 2) retrieve my data? I'm suspecting it's all still on the Linux disk in your FreeBSD box and you moved the wrong disk, which won't boot in its new box. If you need to replace the Linux disk's MBR, a Linux rescue floppy or CDROM which can run LILO or GRUB should handle it. Or you could make a Grub floppy on another system and booting from that, use it's command line to poke around and learn where the Linux stuff is located so you'll know what to tell the boot loader (MBR, lilo, Grub, etc) to boot to. If you can't get the booting fixed, put the disk in a Linux system and try mounting its partitions there and run LILO or GRUB after reading how to configure them.