From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 5 16:14:42 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from unix.megared.net.mx (megamail.megared.com.mx [207.249.162.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 541D614E9B for ; Fri, 5 Nov 1999 16:14:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ales@megared.net.mx) Received: from ales (pix.megared.net.mx [207.249.162.253] (may be forged)) by unix.megared.net.mx (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id SAA51541; Fri, 5 Nov 1999 18:15:20 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from ales@megared.net.mx) Message-ID: <036d01bf27eb$a3e11be0$dbdffea9@megared.net.mx> Reply-To: "Alejandro Ramirez" From: "Alejandro Ramirez" To: "clb" , References: <199911060012.TAA51122@perth.logantech.com> Subject: RE: Boot Problem Date: Fri, 5 Nov 1999 18:12:40 -0600 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2014.211 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2014.211 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, Use the DOS fdisk program to set the disk bootable, or the fdisk from sysinstall. Have Fun... Ales ----- Original Message ----- From: clb To: Sent: Friday, November 05, 1999 6:12 PM Subject: Boot Problem > > > Recently I replaced a failing hard drive in a Freebsd 2.2.6 system > with a new larger hard drive. Everything copied well however I can't get > the system to boot off the new disk. If you boot off floppy and then tell > it to load from wd(0,a)/kernel, the system will come up using the new drive. > Tried using bootinst.exe to install the boot block, but it didn't fix the > problem. Did an fdisk and things look ok, except for the "Can Boot" column > which is set to no. The other thing is that the root partition is now larger, > 3.6G. Have I exceeded an O/S limit? > > The output of fdisk is below: > > Number=1 > Part Type = 386bsd > Can Boot = no > Boot Partition = yes > Beg. head = 1 > Beg. Cyl = 0 > Deb. Sect = 1 > End head = 254 > End Cyl = 552 > End Set = 63 > Relative Sectors = 63 > Number of Sectors = 8883882 > > > > Any help would be great. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message