Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 17:29:27 +0100 From: Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Geom not found, disaster recovery plan on FREEBSD 7.2 STABLE Message-ID: <hggal6$cc0$1@ger.gmane.org> In-Reply-To: <beaf3aa50912180741o7f2de4e5pcea134270da7ea47@mail.gmail.com> References: <beaf3aa50912180741o7f2de4e5pcea134270da7ea47@mail.gmail.com>
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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.
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