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Subject: Help! Accidentally LILO'd boot disk - how to get boot: prompt back?
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I have to reinstall Linux to finish a project that requires it. Since I
have a spare SCSI disk in my machine (that isn't being used by anything), I
thought this would be an easy task. Boy was I wrong!
It seems that LILO has accidentally overwritten the boot sector on my
FreeBSD disk! Now when I boot, I don't get my nice "boot:" prompt, in
stead I get "LI" -- yes, to add insult to injury, LILO doesn't even work
properly!
My FreeBSD partition is, thankfully, intact. I was able to boot into it
by grabbing my 2.2.5 boot floppy and entering "0:wd(0,a)kernel" at the boot
prompt. All filesystems fsck'd and mount'd okay.
But I'd like to get the FreeBSD boot loader back onto my IDE disk, where
it belongs! But I don't know how to do this.
My root disk is a **DANGEROUSLY DEDICATED** 3.2 GB Maxtor (DiamondMax)
drive. Naturally, FreeBSD is the only OS that is occupying it. This is
drive 0 on the primary IDE controller (wd0). My system also has a Seagate
1.0 GB drive as master on the secondary IDE (wd2) [Win95 is installed on
this beast]. And I have a old Conner 500 MB SCSI disk on my SCSI bus
(Adaptec AHA-2940AU) (sd0).
Can anyone help? Please respond by email if possible. Thanks!
as master on the secondary IDE (wd2) [Win95 is installed on
this beast]. And I have a old Conner 500 MB SCSI disk on my SCSI bus
(Adaptec AHA-2940AU) (sd0).
Can anyone help? Please respond by email if possible. Thanks!
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