From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 18 15:49:16 2002 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 4948537B401 for ; Wed, 18 Sep 2002 15:49:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zapper.org (gso26-96-004.triad.rr.com [66.26.96.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6E1843E3B for ; Wed, 18 Sep 2002 15:49:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from zapper@zapper.org) Received: from zapper.org (zapper@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zapper.org (8.12.6/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g8IMlJTq071096; Wed, 18 Sep 2002 18:47:20 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from zapper@zapper.org) Received: (from zapper@localhost) by zapper.org (8.12.6/8.12.3/Submit) id g8IMlJOM071095; Wed, 18 Sep 2002 18:47:19 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <200209182247.g8IMlJOM071095@zapper.org> Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 18:47:19 -0400 From: Daemon To: "Kevin Oberman" , FreeBSD-Questions Subject: Re: recovering ufs after fat games In-Reply-To: <20020918223155.9208E5D04@ptavv.es.net> References: <200209182211.g8IMBrFR071014@zapper.org> <20020918223155.9208E5D04@ptavv.es.net> Organization: Ircee.Com X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.2claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.6.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 "boot0cfg -B -o packet ad0" worked, thanks :) On Wed, 18 Sep 2002 15:31:55 -0700 "Kevin Oberman" wrote: > > Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 18:11:53 -0400 > > From: Daemon > > > > On Wed, 18 Sep 2002 14:13:15 -0700 > > "Kevin Oberman" wrote: > > > > It's on a Dell Deminsion 4300 ... barely a year old and has a Maxtor 7200 40Gig hard drive. I also tried going to the ../tool directory on the "Install" cd and doing bootisnt.exe boot.bin in the DOS prompt but that didn't work either. > > Looking at the partitions in Partition Magic, I can see both partitions "Active" but can't boot into FreeBSD. Also, if I try to boot into FreeBSD using the "PQBoot" program is shows what was "F3=DOS" as "F3=???" upon reboot. I have to load the Partition Magic "restore" floppies in order to make the DOS partition Active again so I can at least boot into Windows. > > > > This system will definitely support packet bootstrap. Did you try: > boot0cfg -B -o packet ad0 > > This should do the trick for you. > > The other option is to use Partition Magic to move the partitions > around so that the FreeBSD partition is at the front of the disk. > > Last thought: is the drive configured in BIOS as LBA? I don't think the > Dell BIOS even has an option to make the disk CHS, but I don't have a > Dell handy to check it out at the moment. Any disk over 2 GB should be > accesses as LBA. > > R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer > Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) > Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) > E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > -- The FoxSurfer Group Admin FoxSurfer.Com FreeBSD 4.6-STABLE To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message