Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 18:37:28 +0100 From: Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> To: Jeronimo Calvo <jeronimocalvop@googlemail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Geom not found, disaster recovery plan on FREEBSD 7.2 STABLE Message-ID: <9bbcef730912180937k5c9a4b68h52bc2d8c5386df2@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <beaf3aa50912180858j1d42a84eo507a6cbc6b7aa867@mail.gmail.com> References: <beaf3aa50912180741o7f2de4e5pcea134270da7ea47@mail.gmail.com> <hggal6$cc0$1@ger.gmane.org> <beaf3aa50912180858j1d42a84eo507a6cbc6b7aa867@mail.gmail.com>
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2009/12/18 Jeronimo Calvo <jeronimocalvop@googlemail.com>: > Hi, how can i change that value on the MBR? You can try reading this: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?fdisk Search for "active slice". > 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 inde= x 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 > /\ =C2=A0www.asciiribbon.org =C2=A0| Against proprietary extensions >
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