From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 12 13:48:06 2006 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 3A10B16A420 for ; Sun, 12 Feb 2006 13:48:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from petermatulis@yahoo.ca) Received: from web60021.mail.yahoo.com (web60021.mail.yahoo.com [209.73.178.69]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A046743D49 for ; Sun, 12 Feb 2006 13:48:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from petermatulis@yahoo.ca) Received: (qmail 12066 invoked by uid 60001); 12 Feb 2006 13:48:05 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.ca; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=gC7f1Yv1ns9DqSN70DYeA3m097i0nNAHd7bzA0Wnc6BSTeyqiamn+RRNSMK4tDP6lV6ogwh6OMhX1BxZP06tRswGvu5jICUVFr7S+lhAFCIW20+zqJjWgyZpa9P6TieMo7A9z+Gekymk+kjZXx6eWhWK4WMKmqz+sPp18Ev2tEw= ; Message-ID: <20060212134805.12064.qmail@web60021.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [216.252.84.55] by web60021.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sun, 12 Feb 2006 08:48:05 EST Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2006 08:48:05 -0500 (EST) From: Peter To: Jerry McAllister In-Reply-To: <200602120405.k1C45LI6019502@clunix.cl.msu.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: MBR blown away 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: Sun, 12 Feb 2006 13:48:06 -0000 --- Jerry McAllister wrote: > > > > > > --- Jerry McAllister wrote: > > > > > > I added a slice to a single hard drive dual-boot (windows) system > and > > > now > > > > I guess that scrambled my MBR. I get three options from the > FreeBSD > > > (5.4) > > > > boot manager: > > > > > > > > 1. DOS > > > > 2. FreeBSD > > > > 3. FreeBSD > > > > > > > > I can boot to FreeBSD (the new slice is fine) by choosing option 3 > but > > > the > > > > windows/dos option is fried. > > > > > > The MBR itself looks OK. According to that piece of menu you > > > posted, you just added another bootable slice. So, there are now two > > > bootable FreeBSD slices and one bootable Microsloth slice. > > Correct, I chose '1' and then the system hangs (no messages/errors). > > I simply converted a 6GB FAT32 partition into a UFS2 slice (chopped > > into three 2GB partitions). > Well, I still am guessing the problem lies in individual slices' boot > sectors and not the MBR. just try and set the bootable flags in the > slices the way you think they should be and see what happens. In sysinstall I toggle bootable but it puts an 'A' which seems to mean auto-bootable. I can only set one 'A' here. -- Peter __________________________________________________________ Find your next car at http://autos.yahoo.ca