Date: Thu, 16 Mar 95 13:13:40 EST From: jeffa@sybase.com (Jeff Anuszczyk) To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Cc: jeffa@sybase.com Subject: Hmmm... interesting situation I'm in with current... Message-ID: <9503161813.AA14777@red_oak.sybgate.sybase.com>
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Hi All, I had 2.0R loaded on my system and SUP'd the latest down to my machine the other day. Rebuilt without error... rebuilt the kernel and then rebooted. Hmmm, it appears that magically the boot block for the BSD partition went away since OSBS says "No Operating System on that Partition". All I did was a "make world" and install a new kernel. MS-DOS still boots fine. So any clues as to why? I tried to reboot off of the 2.0R (latest from Jordan) install floppy to build a Fixit kernel. However, my attempt to reboot causes one of those endless reboot cycles. Any suggestions as to how I can recover from this situation? I'd really rather not blow away my system disk and reinstall since I had just finished downloading about 50MB worth of stuff from another site (okay so I assumed I'd reboot under current successfully :-). My configuration is: 486DX2/66, 16MB - PC clone with AMI Bios Adaptec 1542B, Boot Disk is a 1GB DEC DSP3107LS SCSI-II IDE, Western Digital 200MB SMC Elite 16C ATI Mach 8 I guess if worse comes to worse I'll rebuild on the IDE and then save the stuff I don't want to loose. However the IDE contains the source tree so all of the SUP stuff will get lost (no backup). Sigh. Thanks for any suggestions, - jeff
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