From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 18 16:58:11 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB0DB106568B for ; Fri, 18 Dec 2009 16:58:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jeronimocalvop@googlemail.com) Received: from mail-fx0-f227.google.com (mail-fx0-f227.google.com [209.85.220.227]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F5838FC14 for ; Fri, 18 Dec 2009 16:58:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm27 with SMTP id 27so3038879fxm.3 for ; Fri, 18 Dec 2009 08:58:09 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=xcY1CA7f9ummohUEMm0ATds5Hr+EekIKaK7IaSMgJ3Q=; b=STI7/nsmoexRbf8kkjY/iVuRxzsjH4C6PRdvIYOTZMcaGwaf83CiUoVmndqZMlL1Tb dxD0eGT4x1FGI7mjGnrYv0FLE+VVoBfR8t2zFy4pT5eS6iJRt3NleSySwoKmxRrE3tmv Ue91+zf8wXPMPtCOIgl4U5xkJ4CRXUQkVebCY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=IIV/1pFaq+c7VzmO23PKtnvwTIPp/8F+8O+ONG9GV7BE0tpWKWOlZGQYJ5gdwj6SkO FSHYAbQt2sODKLIMIwhXZr3LssG+zlBsOjlu7MDkxueNh9Sr69dFi5MtVt9W2AigcmyJ gtosossSLb0V40kYZSHyLEl7FflgbL1Tu+KRQ= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.239.197.135 with SMTP id z7mr385878hbi.211.1261155489342; Fri, 18 Dec 2009 08:58:09 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 16:58:09 +0000 Message-ID: From: Jeronimo Calvo To: Ivan Voras Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Geom not found, disaster recovery plan on FREEBSD 7.2 STABLE 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: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 16:58:11 -0000 Hi, how can i change that value on the MBR? 2009/12/18 Ivan Voras : > 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