From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 3 21:50:24 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78EC716A41F for ; Sun, 3 Jun 2007 21:50:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: from mxout4.cac.washington.edu (mxout4.cac.washington.edu [140.142.33.19]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55C0913C44C for ; Sun, 3 Jun 2007 21:50:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: from smtp.washington.edu (smtp.washington.edu [140.142.32.141] (may be forged)) by mxout4.cac.washington.edu (8.13.7+UW06.06/8.13.7+UW07.05) with ESMTP id l53LoNKc012818 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Sun, 3 Jun 2007 14:50:24 -0700 X-Auth-Received: from [192.168.10.45] (c-67-166-149-71.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [67.166.149.71]) (authenticated authid=youshi10) by smtp.washington.edu (8.13.7+UW06.06/8.13.7+UW07.03) with ESMTP id l53LoNo8017612 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Sun, 3 Jun 2007 14:50:23 -0700 Message-ID: <4663379D.3080803@u.washington.edu> Date: Sun, 03 Jun 2007 14:50:21 -0700 From: Garrett Cooper User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (Windows/20070326) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Manolis Kiagias References: <20070603191700.GC66889@demeter.hydra> <466317C4.7060404@daleco.biz> <20070603194516.GF66889@demeter.hydra> <4663225B.6070905@otenet.gr> <20070603205608.GA67502@demeter.hydra> <46632E67.8020405@otenet.gr> In-Reply-To: <46632E67.8020405@otenet.gr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-PMX-Version: 5.3.1.294258, Antispam-Engine: 2.5.1.298604, Antispam-Data: 2007.6.3.143237 X-Uwash-Spam: Gauge=IIIIIII, Probability=7%, Report='__CT 0, __CTE 0, __CT_TEXT_PLAIN 0, __HAS_MSGID 0, __MIME_TEXT_ONLY 0, __MIME_VERSION 0, __SANE_MSGID 0, __USER_AGENT 0' Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: repair a FreeBSD install X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 03 Jun 2007 21:50:24 -0000 Manolis Kiagias wrote: > Chad Perrin wrote: > >> On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 11:19:39PM +0300, Manolis Kiagias wrote: >> >> >>> You can use the grub bootloader to load freebsd (assuming that nothing >>> is damaged in the freebsd slice itself, and I believe it is intact in >>> your case) >>> It's been some time since I've done this myself (I am no longer dual >>> booting FreeBSD on this machine), but I'll try to be as accurate as >>> possible. >>> Start your system, when it gets to the grub loader press "c" to get to >>> the grub command line. >>> Do you know what your freebsd slice is? Even if you don't, you can get >>> this info from fdisk -l from debian. Or you could try searching in the >>> command line. >>> Type something like: >>> >>> root (hd0,2,a) >>> >>> >> GRUB doesn't recognize the partition type for some reason. There's >> pretty clearly something wrong with the partition, I think. >> >> >> > Is it possible that somehow the partition type was changed? > Try as root an fdisk -l from your debian installation. > Your freebsd should show up as partition type a5 (BSD/386) > Otherwise you could use fdisk to fix this. And for that you need a fixit floppy / LiveCD :). -Garrett