Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 13:10:40 -0800 (PST) From: David Nicholas Kayal <davek@saturn5.com> To: John Bleichert <syborg@stny.rr.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mount problems. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.44.0212231300480.58715-100000@blackbox.yayproductions.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0212231525130.16114-100000@janeway.vonbek.dhs.org>
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On Mon, 23 Dec 2002, John Bleichert wrote:
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> 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:
<UNUSED>
The data for partition 3 is:
<UNUSED>
The data for partition 4 is:
<UNUSED>
>
>
> Just a thought - this has happened to me when moving hard drives around.
>
> JB
>
> # John Bleichert
> # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg
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