Date: Fri, 09 Aug 2002 12:39:57 -0700 From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD won't boot any more. HELP! Message-ID: <20020809193957.C25445D06@ptavv.es.net>
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I seem to have seriously shot myself in the foot. My FreeBSD stable laptop (stable as of 8/1/02) was running fine. I got annoyed at the boot-time list of un-bootable slices, so I did a: boot0cfg -B -m 5 /dev/ad0 When I rebooted I got a list of just the first and third slices, as I expected, but the disk would not boot FreeBSD. I hit F3 (FreeBSD is on my slice 3) and see the disk LED flicker and get a beep. That's it. Windows (slice 1) still boots up fine. I tried using the fixit CD to re-install the boot block, but it made no difference. fdisk and disklabel output look fine. The slice is still showing the ACTIVE flag 80. One random thought is that my boot partition is well beyond cylinder 1023. I know that this limit has been worked around in some way, but could I have messed it up when I re-wrote the boot block? Is there some other magic I need. Thanks! R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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