From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 16 8:22:29 2002 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 D941B37B400 for ; Mon, 16 Sep 2002 08:22:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.client2.attbi.com [24.147.188.198]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8FD843E4A for ; Mon, 16 Sep 2002 08:22:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com) Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.client2.attbi.com [24.147.188.198]) by be-well.ilk.org (8.12.6/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g8GFMPLm003214 for ; Mon, 16 Sep 2002 11:22:25 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com) Received: (from lowell@localhost) by be-well.ilk.org (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id g8GFMPOu003211; Mon, 16 Sep 2002 11:22:25 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: be-well.ilk.org: lowell set sender to freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org using -f To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: recovering ufs after fat games References: <20020914150855.A408@gicco.cablecom.ch> <44d6rfrx72.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <20020915225042.A356@gicco.cablecom.ch> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 16 Sep 2002 11:22:25 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20020915225042.A356@gicco.cablecom.ch> Message-ID: <44elbux8lq.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Lines: 32 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hanspeter Roth writes: > On Sep 15 at 13:15, Lowell Gilbert spoke: > > > Hanspeter Roth writes: > > > > > Installing a dummy FreeBsd is just a little tedious. > > > Is there a more direct means to make the old FreeBsd bootable again? > > > > Did you try the command listed in the FAQ? > > No. Which command? There are several listed, but i was thinking of: Fixit# fdisk -B -b /boot/boot0 bootdevice substituting bootdevice for your real boot device such as ad0 (first IDE disk), ad4 (first IDE disk on auxiliary controller), da0 (first SCSI disk), etc. in particular. > I tried `boot0cfg -B', but this obviously isn't the one of the FAQ. No, that's the solution to a different problem. > I've taken a look at the table of contents of `9 Disks, Filesystems, > and Boot Loaders'. But I didn't find something appropriate. Section 3, "Installation", includes the question "Windows 95/98 killed my boot manager! How do I get it back?" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message