From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 23 13:10: 9 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 A17A137B407 for ; Mon, 23 Dec 2002 13:10:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from blackbox.yayproductions.com (h-66-166-17-53.SNVACAID.covad.net [66.166.17.53]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22D0743EDC for ; Mon, 23 Dec 2002 13:10:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from davek@saturn5.com) Received: from localhost (davek@localhost) by blackbox.yayproductions.com (8.11.6/8.11.3) with ESMTP id gBNLAex58864; Mon, 23 Dec 2002 13:10:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from davek@saturn5.com) X-Authentication-Warning: blackbox.yayproductions.com: davek owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 13:10:40 -0800 (PST) From: David Nicholas Kayal X-X-Sender: davek@blackbox.yayproductions.com To: John Bleichert Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mount problems. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: 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 On Mon, 23 Dec 2002, John Bleichert wrote: > Did you build this drive in another box and then swap it over to the box > it's in now? Sounds like the bootloader doesn't know where your drive is > (which is common if you swap in a root drive). Assuming you're using > the standard FreeBSD bootloader, have you tried re-initializing the MBR > with fdisk? Can't remember the switch, see the fdisk man page. I built this drive in the same machine that it is in now. I have tried re-initializing the MBR using fdisk, as per your suggestion, using the -B argument. The system still does not boot up correctly. In addition, I am using the standard FreeBSD bootloader. Here is some more info in hopes of trying to resolve this: > sudo fdisk -b bootcode Password: ******* Working on device /dev/ad0 ******* parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=525 heads=64 sectors/track=63 (4032 blks/cyl) parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: cylinders=525 heads=64 sectors/track=63 (4032 blks/cyl) Media sector size is 512 Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1 Information from DOS bootblock is: The data for partition 1 is: sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) start 63, size 2116737 (1033 Meg), flag 80 (active) beg: cyl 0/ head 1/ sector 1; end: cyl 524/ head 63/ sector 63 The data for partition 2 is: The data for partition 3 is: The data for partition 4 is: > > > Just a thought - this has happened to me when moving hard drives around. > > JB > > # John Bleichert > # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message