From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 24 19:45:09 2004 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 9D4DA16A4CE for ; Fri, 24 Sep 2004 19:45:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: from web41312.mail.yahoo.com (web41312.mail.yahoo.com [66.218.93.61]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 61E9B43D31 for ; Fri, 24 Sep 2004 19:45:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from claudiubichir@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20040924194508.11737.qmail@web41312.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [80.97.1.35] by web41312.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Fri, 24 Sep 2004 12:45:08 PDT Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 12:45:08 -0700 (PDT) From: Claudiu Bichir To: questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 Subject: Boot manager 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, 24 Sep 2004 19:45:09 -0000 Hello guys! I have 2 partitions on my hard drive (ad0) one with Windows XP, the other one with FreeBSD 5.0. Like usual I had problems with windows and I had to format the first partition and reinstall windows. But as you know the instalation deleted the FreeBSD boot manager. I rebooted with a FreeBSD cd and typed "fdisk -b /boot/boot0 ad0" which indeed brought the boot manager back but even now when I press F2 ( the key assigned to FreeBSD) it beeps instead of booting the system. Is there a problem with the disk geometry ? Because if it is then I'm pretty helpless,I am a newbie regarding this OS. Can I recover my data or do I have to delete the whole FreeBSD partition and reinstall the OS ? --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - Send 10MB messages!