From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 24 06:24:53 2003 Return-Path: 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 09CE916A4BF for ; Sun, 24 Aug 2003 06:24:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.gmx.net (pop.gmx.de [213.165.64.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A466A43FE9 for ; Sun, 24 Aug 2003 06:24:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from alexander.pohoyda@gmx.net) Received: (qmail 31727 invoked by uid 65534); 24 Aug 2003 13:24:50 -0000 Received: from p508BFB7C.dip.t-dialin.net (EHLO oak.pohoyda.family) (80.139.251.124) by mail.gmx.net (mp007) with SMTP; 24 Aug 2003 15:24:50 +0200 Received: from oak.pohoyda.family (oak.pohoyda.family [127.0.0.1]) by oak.pohoyda.family (8.12.9/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h7ODOmfN002191; Sun, 24 Aug 2003 15:24:48 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from alexander.pohoyda@gmx.net) Received: (from apog@localhost) by oak.pohoyda.family (8.12.9/8.12.9/Submit) id h7ODOktS002188; Sun, 24 Aug 2003 15:24:46 +0200 (CEST) X-Authentication-Warning: oak.pohoyda.family: apog set sender to alexander.pohoyda@gmx.net using -f Sender: alexander.pohoyda@gmx.net To: OZ References: <20030823103948.8418.qmail@web80604.mail.yahoo.com> From: Alexander Pohoyda Date: 24 Aug 2003 15:24:45 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20030823103948.8418.qmail@web80604.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <87oeyfjihu.fsf@oak.pohoyda.family> Lines: 39 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: emergency: can't boot! please help X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2003 13:24:53 -0000 OZ writes: > Well, I read that to mean that if I installed > /boot/boot0 with sysinstall, THEN i should copy > /boot/boot0 to C:\bootsect.bsd. Incorrect. That's what you were supposed to do: > /boot/boot0 needs to be installed using sysinstall by > selecting the FreeBSD boot manager on the screen which > asks if you wish to use a boot manager. This means that you should not deal with /boot/boot0 file manually. > This is > because /boot/boot0 has the partition table area > filled with NULL characters but sysinstall copies the > partition table before copying /boot/boot0 to the MBR. > dd if=/dev/ad1 of=c:\bootbaby.sec bs=512 count=1 This was not supposed to work as is. dd has no idea about your c: disk. So what exactly did you do? > Please don't tell me this disk is gone. There's got > to be a way to re-create the original partition table > or re-write a new one that will see the disk's > contents, etc.??? You may try Norton Disk Utils on that disk. It may find and restore another copy of you MBR. -- Alexander Pohoyda