On Sat, 26 Jun 2004 20:11:45 +0300, Dancho Penev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 12:25:24AM +1000, Gautam Gopalakrishnan wrote: > >I have a dual boot with Windows 2000 (ad0s1 is windows, ad0s2 is > >FreeBSD 5.2.1). I trashed a working dual-boot somehow. Now the > >problem is, I get the boot menu listing both Windows and FreeBSD, > >but only Windows boots (with F1). Pressing F2 for FreeBSD just > >gives a beep.I booted from the fixit cd and ran the commands seen > >in the handbook: > > > ># fdisk -B -b /hd/boot/boot0 /dev/ad0 > ># disklabel -B -b /hd/boot/boot0 /dev/ad0s2 > > For label use /boot/boot file, /boot/boot0 is for mbr. > > > > >/hd is the temporary directory I created to mount /dev/ad0s2a, > >so I guess my slice is still ok.
Does not help! I even tried "disklabel -B /dev/ad0s2" because a diff between /hd/boot/boot and /boot/boot on the fixit yielded nothing. # disklabel /dev/ad0s2 lists the various partitions properly. I do have an MBR because I get a boot menu. Just can't get the MBR to talk to boot1 and boot2... Gautam _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
