Date: Fri, 5 Nov 1999 18:12:40 -0600 From: "Alejandro Ramirez" <ales@megared.net.mx> To: "clb" <clb@logantech.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Boot Problem Message-ID: <036d01bf27eb$a3e11be0$dbdffea9@megared.net.mx> References: <199911060012.TAA51122@perth.logantech.com>
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Hi, Use the DOS fdisk program to set the disk bootable, or the fdisk from sysinstall. Have Fun... Ales ----- Original Message ----- From: clb <clb@logantech.com> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> 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
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