From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Aug 9 13:48:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86AE437B400 for ; Fri, 9 Aug 2002 13:48:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from postal2.es.net (postal2.es.net [198.128.3.206]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 067DC43E77 for ; Fri, 9 Aug 2002 13:48:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from oberman@es.net) Received: from ptavv.es.net ([198.128.4.29]) by postal2.es.net (Postal Node 2) with ESMTP id GQF37091 for ; Fri, 09 Aug 2002 13:48:31 -0700 Received: from ptavv (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ptavv.es.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA3045D04 for ; Fri, 9 Aug 2002 13:48:30 -0700 (PDT) To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: fdisk vs. sysinstall slicing and bootstrapping Date: Fri, 09 Aug 2002 13:48:30 -0700 From: "Kevin Oberman" Message-Id: <20020809204830.AA3045D04@ptavv.es.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I know that boot0 in stable will allow booting from a slice located more than 1023 cylinders into the disk. I have done just that on an installed system. Works great. But if I use either boot0cfg -B or fdisk -B to write a boot block, it seems unable to deal with booting this partition. Is there a way to safely re-install an mbr with the sysinstall tools without losing the data in the root slice and get the system to be bootable again? I have both install and fixit CDs. R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message