From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 6 01:59:57 2005 Return-Path: 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 DCD0916A4CE for ; Fri, 6 May 2005 01:59:57 +0000 (GMT) Received: from out2.smtp.messagingengine.com (out2.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.26]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 583D043DB1 for ; Fri, 6 May 2005 01:59:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from koushikn@fastmail.fm) Received: from web1.messagingengine.com (web1.internal [10.202.2.210]) by frontend1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76D6BC89EC8 for ; Thu, 5 May 2005 21:59:54 -0400 (EDT) Received: by web1.messagingengine.com (Postfix, from userid 99) id 7C5BB318E; Thu, 5 May 2005 21:59:55 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <1115344795.7908.233488628@webmail.messagingengine.com> X-Sasl-Enc: aAN46uVJIdLWdqPp4Br7ArlpPFU+x5e+bxrvD8uhxqrm 1115344795 From: "Koushik Narayanan" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MIME::Lite 1.5 (F2.73; T1.001; A1.64; B3.05; Q3.03) Date: Fri, 06 May 2005 07:29:55 +0530 Subject: Boot Problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 06 May 2005 01:59:58 -0000 Hello, I have a PC with Windows XP,FreeBSD-5.3 and Linux(Fedora).I use GRUB as my boot manager and I boot into FreeBSD using chainloader. I have XP and FreeBSD on primary partitions.I had a linux primary partion apart from these.I wanted to convert that to UFS2 as my /usr partition (FreeBSD) was almost full.I did that using bsdlabel and mkfs. After that the fdisk print output in linux showed the recently formated partition as type Linux.So I installed linux-fdisk using the ports collection and try to change the system-id of that partition,but it did not work.I then booted into linux and did the same using fdisk.This time it worked.But after that FreeBSD does not boot.(I don't see the rotating / and the loader.The system freezes and even numlock does not work )Here is the fdisk print output from linux: Disk /dev/hda: 20.0 GB, 20060135424 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 2438 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 1 523 4200966 c W95 FAT32 (LBA) /dev/hda2 524 905 3068415 a5 FreeBSD /*FreeBSD root partition*/ /dev/hda3 * 906 1152 1984027+ a5 FreeBSD /*Partition I formated using bsdlabel and mkfs contains ports */ /dev/hda4 1153 2439 10336536 f W95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/hda5 1153 1774 4996183+ 83 Linux /dev/hda6 2406 2438 265041 82 Linux swap /dev/hda7 1775 2146 2988058+ 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/hda8 2147 2405 2080386 b W95 FAT32 Partition table entries are not in disk order When I use GRUB autocomplete feature to check the contents of the FreeBSD partions,It says Error 17: Cannot mount selected partition.(I have done this before when FreeBSD was working fine and I could see the contents of the partion). Perhaps the /boot partion needs to be fsck'ed? And if that is so how can I do it.(I found in the mail archives that fsck'ing UFS2 partitions using linux is not possible.) Thanks, Koushik Narayanan