From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 6 18:15:36 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 9C9C716A41C for ; Wed, 6 Jul 2005 18:15:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bob@immure.com) Received: from ylpvm43.prodigy.net (ylpvm43-ext.prodigy.net [207.115.57.74]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 698C743D49 for ; Wed, 6 Jul 2005 18:15:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bob@immure.com) Received: from pimout2-ext.prodigy.net (pimout2-int.prodigy.net [207.115.4.217]) by ylpvm43.prodigy.net (8.12.10 outbound/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j66IFaeA017026 for ; Wed, 6 Jul 2005 14:15:36 -0400 X-ORBL: [66.136.206.1] Received: from maul.immure.com (adsl-66-136-206-1.dsl.austtx.swbell.net [66.136.206.1]) by pimout2-ext.prodigy.net (8.13.4 outbound domainkey aix/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j66IFXa9111206 for ; Wed, 6 Jul 2005 14:15:34 -0400 Received: from luke.immure.com (luke.immure.com [10.1.132.3]) by maul.immure.com (8.13.3/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j66IFS98050140 for ; Wed, 6 Jul 2005 13:15:28 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from bob@immure.com) Received: from luke.immure.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by luke.immure.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j66IFSWT087700 for ; Wed, 6 Jul 2005 13:15:28 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from bob@luke.immure.com) Received: (from bob@localhost) by luke.immure.com (8.13.1/8.12.11/Submit) id j66IFSE4087699 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 6 Jul 2005 13:15:28 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from bob) Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2005 13:15:28 -0500 From: Bob Willcox To: questions list Message-ID: <20050706181528.GD85937@luke.immure.com> References: <20050706152750.GA85937@luke.immure.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050706152750.GA85937@luke.immure.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i X-immure-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-immure-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-From: bob@immure.com Subject: Re: How do I reinstall the FreeBSD bootmanager? - next problem :-( X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Bob Willcox List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2005 18:15:36 -0000 On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 10:27:50AM -0500, Bob Willcox wrote: > I need to reinstall the FreeBSD bootmanager on one of my systems and > was hoping someone can point me in the right direction on doing this. > I tried running /sbin/sysinstall but decided that I wasn't confident > enough of what I was doing to risk trashing my install. > > BTW, this is on an amd64 6-current system incase it matters. I've received several private emails with suggested solutions. The simplest one for me (since I do have FreeBSD up and running on the system was to use the boot0cfg command thusly: boot0cfg -B -s 4 -m 0xd ad4 Now, to my original problem (that caused me to overwrite the FreeBSD boot manager with another that I tried called GAG). This particular system has a single 300 GB harddrive installed with four Slices (partitions in the DOS vernacular) setup as follows: 1 Windows XP (~100 GB) 2 Linux swap (~2 GB) 3 Linux root (~82 GB) 4 FreeBSD (~102 GB) With the FreeBSD boot manager (and with GAG) I can successfully boot Windows and FreeBSD, but not Linux. It's as though the boot record is not being found (geometry problems?). Perhaps someone out there has a suggestion on what's wrong, and what can be done to fix it. Thanks again, Bob -- Bob Willcox Reality is nothing but a collective hunch. bob@immure.com -- Lily Tomlin Austin, TX