From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 11 15:25:11 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org 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 7DEE216A403 for ; Tue, 11 Apr 2006 15:25:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doug@polands.org) Received: from corinth.polands.org (CPE-72-129-222-120.new.res.rr.com [72.129.222.120]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70DAE43D5E for ; Tue, 11 Apr 2006 15:25:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from doug@polands.org) Received: from email.polands.org (ammon.polands.org [172.16.1.7]) by corinth.polands.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k3BFP4tE086806; Tue, 11 Apr 2006 10:25:04 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from doug@polands.org) Received: from 209.103.215.99 (proxying for 209.103.215.99) (SquirrelMail authenticated user djp) by email.polands.org with HTTP; Tue, 11 Apr 2006 10:25:05 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <64211.209.103.215.99.1144769105.squirrel@email.polands.org> In-Reply-To: <200604111408.k3BE8CF2019510@clunix.cl.msu.edu> References: <20060410235508.GA742@polands.org> <200604111408.k3BE8CF2019510@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 10:25:05 -0500 (CDT) From: "Doug Poland" To: "Jerry McAllister" User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.87/1391/Tue Apr 11 04:53:41 2006 on corinth.polands.org X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hosed my MBR? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 15:25:11 -0000 On Tue, April 11, 2006 09:08, Jerry McAllister wrote: >> >> I'm in a bit of a mess here. I've got an Asus P4C800-E Deluxe >> motherboard with two on-board SATA RAID controllers, an Intel >> MatrixRAID (ICH5R) and Promise Fasttrak (PDC20378). My BIOS allows >> me to boot from either the Promise or the Intel controller. >> > > Well, the install CD is also the fixit CD. You can try booting from > it and choosing the shell and then trying to run the fdisk from that > environment to replace the MBR. > > I have done that for people who have hosed their MBR on machines with > Ghost - even their XP only, no FreeBSD, systems, using the FreeBSD > fixit, I ran fdisk and replaced the MBR with the FreeBSD MBR and it > worked just fine. > Hi Jerry, I think the root of my confusion here is the fact that I have two RAID controllers and can boot off either controller. Does that mean I have two MBR's, one for each controller? If that's the case and I boot off a CD-ROM, which MBR am I fixing? -- Regards, Doug