Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 10:44:27 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Donald Burr <dburr@POBoxes.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Help! Accidentally LILO'd boot disk - how to get boot: prompt back? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980204103939.15507I-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.980203010057.dburr@POBoxes.com>
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On Tue, 3 Feb 1998, Donald Burr wrote: > But I'd like to get the FreeBSD boot loader back onto my IDE disk, where > it belongs! But I don't know how to do this. > > My root disk is a **DANGEROUSLY DEDICATED** 3.2 GB Maxtor (DiamondMax) > drive. Dedicated disks use the disklabel as the boot sector; you're lucky you didn't hose the disklabel in the process! LILO loads into the boot sector assuming there's a partition table and probably barfs when it tries to load a disklabel as a partition table. :) To fix: disklabel -b -B wd0 Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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