Date: Wed, 01 Dec 1999 06:54:05 +0000 From: Tim Liddelow <tim@esec.com.au> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Help in fixing MBR / loader Message-ID: <3844C60D.AFCC8B25@esec.com.au>
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I recently purchased a new 8GB disk to replace the existing 2GB disk on my FreeBSD system. After labelling and partitioning, everything seemed okay and I moved the data across. However, sysinstall has placed a boot manager on the disk as it thought this was a second bootable disk. This isn't what I want; I just want the previous behavior (ie. NOT text that says: F1 BSD ... etc.) Also, when I hit F1, i thent get FreeBSD Boot...etc and then if I continue with the default (/kernel) I get: Disk error 0x1 (lba=0x_some_thing) which, according to boot(8) is "Invalid argument". No what does that actually mean ? The disk is brand new, and is set in the BIOS to be LBA. I have also tried "NORMAL" mode but no difference. However, if I then use "/kernel.old" it boots. The funny thing is /kernel.old and /kernel are IDENTICAL. How do I fix this so /kernel works again and I don't get the "F1 ... BSD" prompt(s) ? I want to be careful and not hose my disk by corrupting the partition table...is there a utility to write the MBR etc that isn't sysinstall ? Cheers Tim. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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