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Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 23:38:31 +1000
From: Gautam Gopalakrishnan <thatha@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Unable to boot FreeBSD (dual-boot)
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On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 14:57:42 +0300, Dancho Penev <dpenev@mnet.bg> wrote:
> >> On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 12:25:24AM +1000, Gautam Gopalakrishnan wrote:
> >> For label use /boot/boot file, /boot/boot0 is for mbr.
> >>
> >> >
> >> >/hd is the temporary directory I created to mount /dev/ad0s2a,
> >> >so I guess my slice is still ok.
> >
> >Does not help!  I even tried "disklabel -B /dev/ad0s2" because a
> >diff between /hd/boot/boot and /boot/boot on the fixit yielded
> >nothing.
> >
> ># disklabel /dev/ad0s2
> >lists the various partitions properly.
> >
> >I do have an MBR because I get a boot menu. Just can't get the
> >MBR to talk to boot1 and boot2...
> 
> If you can remember what were you did to broke configuration it will be
> very helpful. At this point I can't say anything else. Sorry.

I think I did "boot0cfg -B /dev/ad0s2" or maybe ad0 instead. Wish I
could remember what I did exactly. Don't even remember why I did it.
Was that helpful? :-)

Gautam