Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 16:58:09 +0000 From: Jeronimo Calvo <jeronimocalvop@googlemail.com> To: Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Geom not found, disaster recovery plan on FREEBSD 7.2 STABLE Message-ID: <beaf3aa50912180858j1d42a84eo507a6cbc6b7aa867@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <hggal6$cc0$1@ger.gmane.org> References: <beaf3aa50912180741o7f2de4e5pcea134270da7ea47@mail.gmail.com> <hggal6$cc0$1@ger.gmane.org>
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Hi, how can i change that value on the MBR? 2009/12/18 Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org>: > Jeronimo Calvo wrote: >> >> Ho folks, >> >> As a plan for a recovery planing due to a crash on a kernel Update, >> when restarted I used to have F1 Freebsd and F2 Other, I choosed F2 >> wich seems to belong to an old linux installation and a Grub-error pop >> up, after restarting again, Freebsd completly dissapear booting just >> that Old-Crashed GRUB plan... >> >> On an attempt to recover the normal behaviour I tried booting from a >> Livecd and restore the freebsd boot loader MBR on my first disk doing: >> >> Fixit# fdisk -B -b /boot/boot0 ad8 >> >> seems to write the MBR but when is asking to overwrite the partition >> table it is giving me an error: >> >> Geom not found... >> >> I tried several times, as well as using "fdisk -BI ad8" wich gives me >> the same error... > > This particular error in your particular circumstances can be ignored. > > I think the old loader (GRUB) simply changed the "active" partition index in > the MBR, you don't need to reinstall the boot loader - change the active > parition. > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- () ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Against HTML e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org | Against proprietary extensions
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