From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 11 9:58:41 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from blueyonder.co.uk (pcow035o.blueyonder.co.uk [195.188.53.121]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4DFA37B401 for ; Wed, 11 Jul 2001 09:58:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jfm@blueyonder.co.uk) Received: from lexx.my.domain ([62.31.194.122]) by blueyonder.co.uk with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.687.68); Wed, 11 Jul 2001 17:58:37 +0100 From: John Murphy To: "Marcel Dijk" Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: boot Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 17:59:00 +0100 Organization: poor Reply-To: jfm@blueyonder.co.uk Message-ID: References: <015f01c10a18$fe766770$a8c133d5@cc13708a> In-Reply-To: <015f01c10a18$fe766770$a8c133d5@cc13708a> X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.8/32.548 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Marcel Dijk" wrote: >Hello, > >This afternoon I added a disk to my FreeBSD machine. And then I made a >mistake. I was creating partitions on the new disk with = /stand/systinstall >(fdisk) and after that I accidently chose BOOT MANAGER instead of MBR, = what >I wanted. Now my machine doesn't boot anymore. I get to see: Were you dual booting, or is FreeBSD the only Operating System? Does it work as previously if you remove the disk you added? Are the drives correctly jumpered for Master/Slave? >Invalid Partition >Invalid Partition >no /boot/loader > >>> FreeBSD/i386 BOOT >Default: 0:ad(0,a)/kernel >boot: It should wait for input here so try entering something like: 0:ad(1,a)/kernel If that works it would indicate that your old drive became the Slave = somehow. >I am/was running FreeBSD 4.2. What am I supposed to do now, to make it = boot >again. I DID NOT change anything on the exsisting disk. I only created >partitions on the new disk and accidently chose BOOT MANAGER instead of = MBR. If you Really did not change anything other than the boot manager then your data should be intact. > > Thanks, eveything I need is on that machine so it has to work... But recently backed up I hope. Do you have a fixit cd or fixit.flp? John. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message