From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 22 19:04:45 2004 Return-Path: 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 00AA316A4CE for ; Wed, 22 Sep 2004 19:04:45 +0000 (GMT) Received: from web41301.mail.yahoo.com (web41301.mail.yahoo.com [66.218.93.186]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BB88C43D48 for ; Wed, 22 Sep 2004 19:04:44 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from claudiubichir@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20040922190432.40861.qmail@web41301.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [81.180.61.17] by web41301.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Wed, 22 Sep 2004 12:04:32 PDT Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 12:04:32 -0700 (PDT) From: Claudiu Bichir To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 Subject: Boot manger problems X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 19:04:45 -0000 I have 2 partitions on my hard drive ( ad0 ), one with Windows XP, one with FreeBSD 5.0. Like usually I had problems with windows and I had to format the first partition (ad0s1) and reinstall it, but as you know it deleted the FreeBSD boot manager. I booted with a CD and tryed "fdisk /b /boot/boot0 ad0" which indeed brought back the boot manager but even now I can't enter FreeBSD because when I press F2 it beeps instead of booting. Is there a problem with the disk geometry? If yes ... I'm pretty helpless because I can say that I'm a newbie regarding this OS. Can I recover my FreeBSD partition or do I have to delete it and reinstall the OS again? --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Helps protect you from nasty viruses.