From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 30 07:44:36 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C422416A4CF for ; Tue, 30 Mar 2004 07:44:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.dti.supsi.ch (mail.die.supsi.ch [193.5.153.13]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3F9C43D5F for ; Tue, 30 Mar 2004 07:44:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from roberto.nunnari@supsi.ch) Received: from supsi.ch (pcm2027.dti.supsi.ch [193.5.152.27]) by mail.dti.supsi.ch (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id i2UFiSv04009; Tue, 30 Mar 2004 17:44:28 +0200 Message-ID: <4069965D.6070301@supsi.ch> Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 17:46:37 +0200 From: Roberto Nunnari User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Evan Dower References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: help! I broke the partition table of the drive with thebootable partition! X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 15:44:36 -0000 Hi Evan. Evan Dower wrote: > You'll need to run fdisk (or the visual version of fdisk in sysinstall > that you can get to through Index->fdisk) to change the values back to > what they were. In order for the partition to be marked bootable, it > needs the flag 0x80 (active). In sysinstall's fdisk interface you can > get the effect by pushing S (for Set bootable). > I hope this helps you out, Thank you for your reply. I fixed it using fdisk and bsdlabel. I didn't want to run sysinstall because at present I don't have a consistent system at hand.. in fact after upgrading from 5.2-p1 to 5.2.1-p3 the system had kernel panic late in the boot process, during network configuration.. so I did a restore.. but no full.. just /boot, /bin, /sbin, /lib, /libexec and /etc.. so I don't feel confident in using funny tools until I get the system back to a consistent state. Best regards. -- Roberto Nunnari -software engineer- mailto:roberto.nunnari@supsi.ch Scuola Universitaria Professionale della Svizzera Italiana Dipartimento Tecnologie Innovative http://www.dti.supsi.ch SUPSI-DTI Via Cantonale tel: +41-91-6108561 6928 Manno """ fax: +41-91-6108570 Switzerland (o o) =======================oOO==(_)==OOo========================