From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 1 15:41:22 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5945616A41F for ; Mon, 1 Aug 2005 15:41:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from garys@opusnet.com) Received: from opusnet.com (mail.opusnet.com [209.210.200.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 121A943D46 for ; Mon, 1 Aug 2005 15:41:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from garys@opusnet.com) Received: from localhost.localhost [70.98.246.232] by opusnet.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-8.05) id A29E80730150; Mon, 01 Aug 2005 08:41:18 -0700 Received: from localhost.localhost (localhost.localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localhost (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j71Fggl3096604; Mon, 1 Aug 2005 08:42:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from garys@opusnet.com) Received: (from jojo@localhost) by localhost.localhost (8.13.3/8.13.3/Submit) id j71FgWW1096603; Mon, 1 Aug 2005 08:42:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from garys@opusnet.com) To: vdm.fbsd@virgilio.it References: <42DC14FE0005267F@ims1d.cp.tin.it> From: garys@opusnet.com (Gary W. Swearingen) Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2005 08:42:32 -0700 In-Reply-To: <42DC14FE0005267F@ims1d.cp.tin.it> (vdm fbsd's message of "Mon, 1 Aug 2005 13:56:25 +0200") Message-ID: <8hoe8h4qaf.e8h@mail.opusnet.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) XEmacs/21.4 (Jumbo Shrimp, berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Glenn Dawson Subject: Re: Problems with booting & MBR 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: Mon, 01 Aug 2005 15:41:22 -0000 vdm.fbsd@virgilio.it writes: >>From dmesg: > ad0: 9541MB [19386/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA33 I think you just said that > vicbsd root# fdisk /dev/ad0 > vicbsd root# bsdlabel /dev/ad0s1 work OK, but that your problem (from a prior msg) is: >>># fdisk -B -b /boot/boot0 ad0 >>>fdisk: cannot open disk /dev/ad0: No such file or directory That makes no sense. If I understood this right, there's something very wrong and you ought to be filing a PR about it and/or reporting the problem on the mailing list for 5.4 development, freebsd-stable. Also: You might rather use "boot0cfg" instead of "fdisk" as the former allows you to configure stuff that the later doesn't.