Date: 24 Aug 2003 15:24:45 +0200 From: Alexander Pohoyda <alexander.pohoyda@gmx.net> To: OZ <oz16oz2@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: emergency: can't boot! please help Message-ID: <87oeyfjihu.fsf@oak.pohoyda.family> In-Reply-To: <20030823103948.8418.qmail@web80604.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20030823103948.8418.qmail@web80604.mail.yahoo.com>
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OZ <oz16oz2@yahoo.com> writes: > Well, I read that to mean that if I installed > /boot/boot0 with sysinstall, THEN i should copy > /boot/boot0 to C:\bootsect.bsd. Incorrect. That's what you were supposed to do: > /boot/boot0 needs to be installed using sysinstall by > selecting the FreeBSD boot manager on the screen which > asks if you wish to use a boot manager. This means that you should not deal with /boot/boot0 file manually. > This is > because /boot/boot0 has the partition table area > filled with NULL characters but sysinstall copies the > partition table before copying /boot/boot0 to the MBR. > dd if=/dev/ad1 of=c:\bootbaby.sec bs=512 count=1 This was not supposed to work as is. dd has no idea about your c: disk. So what exactly did you do? > Please don't tell me this disk is gone. There's got > to be a way to re-create the original partition table > or re-write a new one that will see the disk's > contents, etc.??? You may try Norton Disk Utils on that disk. It may find and restore another copy of you MBR. -- Alexander Pohoyda <alexander.pohoyda@gmx.net>
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