Re: Fun with 'fdisk -B -b /boot/boot0 ad0'

2003-07-25 Thread Craig Boston
On Wednesday 23 July 2003 04:26 pm, Ryan T. Dean wrote: > [...] The FreeBSD boot program came back, > however, when I attempt to load FreeBSD, it merely beeps at me. It will, > however, boot into W2k. I've tried supping, rebuilding the boot blocks (cd > src/sys/boot; make install; fdisk -B -b /bo

Fun with 'fdisk -B -b /boot/boot0 ad0'

2003-07-23 Thread Andrew Lankford
>I was hoping that someone might have an idea, as >I've exhausted all of mine for the time being. Boot0 is just a boot menu whose contents are in sector0 of your hard disk. Another boot block (most likely the contents of boot1) should located at or near the beginning of your freebsd slice. Th

Fun with 'fdisk -B -b /boot/boot0 ad0'

2003-07-23 Thread Ryan T. Dean
Greetings- I've got a laptop which I dualboot between -CURRENT and W2k. I recently had to reinstall W2k, and in the process it eliminated my MBR. I can successfully boot into FBSD by using a boot floppy and telling it to boot the kernel from the hard drive, but this is, well, kludgy. Checkin