From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 2 18:44:53 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67FB216A4CE for ; Wed, 2 Feb 2005 18:44:53 +0000 (GMT) Received: from web30901.mail.mud.yahoo.com (web30901.mail.mud.yahoo.com [68.142.200.154]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DB8DE43D46 for ; Wed, 2 Feb 2005 18:44:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from evantd@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 94393 invoked by uid 60001); 2 Feb 2005 18:44:50 -0000 Comment: DomainKeys? See http://antispam.yahoo.com/domainkeys DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; b=v275Gbtrh8BGy/3VxNn+d+J43GcljGA6EOoTdxNut36A4moSSRvk21NdR64vMCmS3OVdpkyviyXxMaoDYPDyY/TUDHY+y2kyh7OJXdb9Uj9B3wJKAQrSH7lSQMFlQU4p9MBq6+vugl5pk0vYVg2C+GLTGs15gA2Yesr4IECGEjQ= ; Message-ID: <20050202184450.94391.qmail@web30901.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Received: from [24.18.239.171] by web30901.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Wed, 02 Feb 2005 10:44:50 PST Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2005 10:44:50 -0800 (PST) From: Evan Dower To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii cc: Andriy Tkachuk Subject: Re: Boot fails: Default F1? hangs. Trashed MBR? replaced FBSD mbr. X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2005 18:44:53 -0000 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