Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 01:24:19 +0100 From: Ernst de Haan <ernst@znerd.demon.nl> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Sebastiaan van Erk <sebster@stack.nl> Subject: Showstopper! Pleeze help me out! Message-ID: <38A20533.46F45FF6@znerd.demon.nl>
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Hi all, Since a few hours ago, my FreeBSD harddisk won't boot anymore. Any help at all would be greatly appreciated! :-( Any suggestions on what I might try? Here's the problem. When I start up I get the BIOS messages, all okay, then the boot manager (Win98/FreeBSD/Linux), and when I select FreeBSD it says: `No operating system found'. Windoze is on my first IDE disk, FreeBSD are on my second. When I run FIPS 2.0 on the second disk from a DOS prompt, it displays some stats and then tells me `Error: Invalid root sector signature: FF AA'. This is more of the output from FIPS (I compressed the table a bit): Which Drive (1=0x80/2=0x81/)? 2 Partition table: |boot| Start | | End | Start |Number of| #|able|Hd Cyl Sec|System|Hd Cyl Sec| Sector |Sectors | MB -+----+----------+------+------------+--------+---------+---- 1|yes | 1 768 63| FFh|254 1917 63|16711935| 16753663|8180 2| no | 0 894 63| FFh|254 1807 63|16753663| 16747519|8177 3| no | 0 768 63| FFh| 0 1792 63|16711935| 16711935|8160 4| no | 0 768 63| FFh| 0 1792 63|16711935| 16711935|8160 Checking root sector ... Error: Invalid root sector signature: FF AA I tried to start the Fixit thingy from the 2nd CD-ROM, but it wouldn't let me because that disk would contain the `aplpha architecture', not my i386 arch. Duh, I don't want to install from it! These are my system specs: * FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE * Bootmanager: OS BootSelect 2.0b8 by Thomas Wolfram * P2-400, 128 MB DIMM * 3Com 3C509 Combo in UTP mode * Diamond V550 * Dynalink IS64PPH(+) * 2x IDE on board * ide0 master: Seagate ST38641A * ide0 slave: Quantum Fireball 6.4A * ide1 master: Sony DVD-ROM DDU-220E * ide1 slave: Iomega ZIP drive 100MB * Adaptec 2940U2W SCSI adapter * Teac CD Writer R56S * SB Live! I just bought myself an U2W harddisk, an IBM DNES-309170, and I intended to install this disk tomorrow. Thanks! Ernst -- Ernst de Haan Freelance Java Architect "Come to me all who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest" -- Jesus Christ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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