Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2005 10:44:50 -0800 (PST) From: Evan Dower <evantd@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Cc: Andriy Tkachuk <ant@emict.com> Subject: Re: Boot fails: Default F1? hangs. Trashed MBR? replaced FBSD mbr. Message-ID: <20050202184450.94391.qmail@web30901.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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sysutils/gpart is probably your friend here. It will look at your disk and try to guess what the partition table was. When I lost my MBR and partition table, it was right. Lucky for me I had another disk I could boot up on and use it from. I believe it will also offer to write the partition table to disk. The only thing to do after that is make sure the right partitions are marked active so they show up as bootable. Of course, for all know that could be your entire problem. If fdisk and bsdlabel show everything is in order, then be sure to check your boot/active flags. ===== -- Evan Dower Undergraduate, Computer Science University of Washington Public key: http://students.washington.edu/evantd/pgp-pub-key.txt Key fingerprint = D321 FA24 4BDA F82D 53A9 5B27 7D15 5A4F 033F 887D __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Meet the all-new My Yahoo! - Try it today! http://my.yahoo.com
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