Date: Sun, 03 Jun 2007 14:50:21 -0700 From: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> To: Manolis Kiagias <sonicy@otenet.gr> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: repair a FreeBSD install Message-ID: <4663379D.3080803@u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <46632E67.8020405@otenet.gr> 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>
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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
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