From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 28 09:16:15 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 4577A16A420 for ; Thu, 28 Jul 2005 09:16:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from vdm.fbsd@virgilio.it) Received: from vsmtp14.tin.it (vsmtp14.tin.it [212.216.176.118]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C982443D4C for ; Thu, 28 Jul 2005 09:16:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from vdm.fbsd@virgilio.it) Received: from ims1d.cp.tin.it (192.168.70.101) by vsmtp14.tin.it (7.2.060.1) id 42E2842D00208F25 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 28 Jul 2005 11:16:12 +0200 Received: from [192.168.70.183] by ims1d.cp.tin.it with HTTP; Thu, 28 Jul 2005 11:16:08 +0200 Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 11:16:08 +0200 Message-ID: <42DC14FE0003EB30@ims1d.cp.tin.it> From: vdm.fbsd@virgilio.it To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Originating-IP: 193.108.204.21 Subject: Problems with booting & MBR 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: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 09:16:15 -0000 In the first disk ad0 (master) of a computer at office I had installed li= nux to be used as a postgresql server. Later I installed FreeBSD 5.4 (just to= have a go at it) on a partition of the second disk ad1 (slave) to be a p= ostgrresql server too. Linux lilo was the boot loader, booting linux by default and freebsd. Now, convinced of the high quality of the latter I eliminated linux from the first disk unfortunately without modifying lilo, and reshuffled the F= reeBSD filesystem as in my latest /etc/fstab using also the first disk: # Device Mountpoint FStype Options Dump P= ass# /dev/ad1s2b none swap sw 0 0= /dev/ad1s2a / ufs rw 1 1= /dev/ad0s1a /usr/local ufs rw 0 0= /dev/ad0s1d /var ufs rw 0 0= /dev/ad0s1e /tmp ufs rw 0 0= /dev/acd0 /cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0= Now, even though I read the booting procedure in the handbook and somewhe= re else in the internet, issuing the various "fdisk -b B", "disklabel -b .."= , "boot0cfg ..", I was completely unable to modify the MBR and make this Fr= eeBSD only computer boot directly into this OS. What should I do with the configuration I have? A straightforward and step by step explanation is highly appreciated. P.S. Is it possible that some problems can arise by the fact that I used an "a" slice (ad0s1a)for mounting /usr/local and freebsd starts from ad1s= 1a? Ciao Vittorio