Re: please remove all search results with name Constantin Stalzer
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 6:57 PM, Bill Campbell free...@celestial.comwrote: On Tue, Feb 10, 2009, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 01:29:34PM -0800, Chris Knight wrote: Damn, that is the funniest thing I have seen in years. You might try posting a helpful response instead of trying to be insulting. You might explain to the person, who apparently does not understand the net, that it would be impossible to remove all references with his name because within minutes of it being posted to the list it is mirrored and archived in many many places over which the list manager has no control - in fact does not even know about. One example of those is Google. FreeBSD has no control over what Google stores. But, there are many other sites that input this stuff, mung it according to their interests and make it available on the net. Many years ago we hosted the original CDDB database (identifies music CDs), and I got at least one complaint from somebody whose name appeared in a song title saying to remove it or else. I have had people ask to remove things from the Mailman archives of lists we host, who backed off when I asked for my normal hourly rate to (a) figure out how pipermail works, and (b) deal with removing their messages. I added that there are hundreds of people receiving these messages around the world who may have them archived as well, not to mention google. I never heard from them again. Bill snip i'm not sure why being seen in google is a bad thing. unless you're Mark Rich or something. If you're overly concerned, maybe you could just contact google and they would be willing to suit you for a small fee, perhaps your soul. -- Marlene Dietrich - Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they do not like h... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: please remove all search results with name Constantin Stalzer
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 7:41 PM, Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu wrote: On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 04:33:26PM -0800, Chris Knight wrote: On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 3:36 PM, Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu wrote: On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 01:29:34PM -0800, Chris Knight wrote: Damn, that is the funniest thing I have seen in years. You might try posting a helpful response instead of trying to be insulting. I wasn't trying to be insulting. I was trying to be funny. Apparently, you don't know the difference; which is in fact an insult in case you think I was trying to be funny. To make fun of someone's ignorance is not humorous. It is offensive and small. jerry -Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org can't you jest about something with someone? you don' t have to be offensive. -- Doug Larson - Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: please remove all search results with name Constantin Stalzer
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 7:52 PM, will...@futurecis.com wrote: Let the flaming begin Or continue..meh! --Original Message-- From: michael copeland Sender: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org To: Jerry McAllister Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Feb 10, 2009 19:50 Subject: Re: please remove all search results with name Constantin Stalzer On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 7:41 PM, Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu wrote: On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 04:33:26PM -0800, Chris Knight wrote: On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 3:36 PM, Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu wrote: On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 01:29:34PM -0800, Chris Knight wrote: Damn, that is the funniest thing I have seen in years. You might try posting a helpful response instead of trying to be insulting. I wasn't trying to be insulting. I was trying to be funny. Apparently, you don't know the difference; which is in fact an insult in case you think I was trying to be funny. To make fun of someone's ignorance is not humorous. It is offensive and small. jerry -Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org can't you jest about something with someone? you don' t have to be offensive. -- Doug Larson - Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org Sent from my BlackBerry(R) wireless device no flaming here. -- Bob Hope - I have a wonderful make-up crew. They're the same people restoring the Statue of Liberty. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: please remove all search results with name Constantin Stalzer
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 8:13 PM, Chris Knight boh...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 4:41 PM, Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu wrote: To make fun of someone's ignorance is not humorous. It is offensive and small. We are going to have to agree to disagree. It is my opinion that to make fun of someone's _stupidity_ is offensive. Stupidity, like the lack of a sense of humor, is a disability that can not be cured. Ignorance, which is easily cured, is something that we all suffer from time to time and is therefore a more universal point of humor. Cheers, -Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org and if someone is ignorant of their stupidity? -- Doug Larson - Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: please remove all search results with name Constantin Stalzer
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 8:38 PM, Steve Bertrand st...@ibctech.ca wrote: Chris Knight wrote: On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 4:41 PM, Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu wrote: To make fun of someone's ignorance is not humorous. It is offensive and small. We are going to have to agree to disagree. I read in a posting recently by a very, very prominent and respected member of the Internet community that agreeing to disagree is very disrespectful. In other words, you are accepting the fact that someone is wrong without finding a solution. Jerry made a very valid point. Jerry has made countless hundreds of posts to this list, many of which are directed at helping the newcomer settle in. _Any_ poking fun at someone whatsoever is unacceptable, and that is non-disputable. It is my opinion that to make fun of someone's _stupidity_ is offensive. Stupidity, like the lack of a sense of humor, is a disability that can not be cured. Ignorance, which is easily cured, is something that we all suffer from time to time and is therefore a more universal point of humor. It is not a point of humour to those who do not know any better. A softer, more gentle approach would be appropriate here. Even if *you* think it is humorous, have you ever known anyone, or had any children with any sort of anxiety issues? I'm sure you haven't, or you wouldn't be arguing with Mr. McAllister, and you surely wouldn't be defending your post. Perhaps by have to agree to disagree means that you will rephrase a response to the OP directly that explains the 'hows' and 'whys' of the non-feasibility of the request... Cheers, Steve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org on a side note, i can't believe this has kept going -- Doug Larson - Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: please remove all search results with name Constantin Stalzer
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 8:43 PM, Bill Campbell free...@celestial.comwrote: On Tue, Feb 10, 2009, Chris Knight wrote: On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 5:16 PM, michael copeland michael.copel...@gmail.com wrote: and if someone is ignorant of their stupidity? Then Gary Larson puts them in a Far Side Comic. :) Every person is ignorant about far more things than they understand well, as is well put in the sayings: A man who knows not and knows he knows not is a wise mane. A man who knows not and knows not he knows not is a fool. One of my favorite quotes, which is particularly apt today in light of the ignorance being displayed in D.C. is: It is no crime to be ignorant of economics, which is, after all, a specialized discipline and one that most people consider to be a 'dismal science.' But it is totally irresponsible to have a loud and vociferous opinion on economic subjects while remaining in this state of ignorance. -- Murray N. Rothbard Bill -- INTERNET: b...@celestial.com Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way Voice: (206) 236-1676 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820 Fax:(206) 232-9186 Those who cast the vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything. (Joseph Stalin) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org -- Bob Hope - I have a wonderful make-up crew. They're the same people restoring the Statue of Liberty. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: please remove all search results with name Constantin Stalzer
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 8:45 PM, michael copeland michael.copel...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 8:43 PM, Bill Campbell free...@celestial.comwrote: On Tue, Feb 10, 2009, Chris Knight wrote: On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 5:16 PM, michael copeland michael.copel...@gmail.com wrote: and if someone is ignorant of their stupidity? Then Gary Larson puts them in a Far Side Comic. :) Every person is ignorant about far more things than they understand well, as is well put in the sayings: A man who knows not and knows he knows not is a wise mane. A man who knows not and knows not he knows not is a fool. One of my favorite quotes, which is particularly apt today in light of the ignorance being displayed in D.C. is: It is no crime to be ignorant of economics, which is, after all, a specialized discipline and one that most people consider to be a 'dismal science.' But it is totally irresponsible to have a loud and vociferous opinion on economic subjects while remaining in this state of ignorance. -- Murray N. Rothbard Bill Bill, it is my firm belief, nee understanding that everyone in D.C is ignorant or more factually, a criminal. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: please remove all search results with name Constantin Stalzer
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 8:45 PM, Steve Bertrand st...@ibctech.ca wrote: michael copeland wrote: on a side note, i can't believe this has kept going Either can I. It's a flame-war, and I became part of it (tsk). I just so want this list to be a good place for newcomers as I once was, that I'd rather try to keep the list clean, and very much dislike it when someone tries to challenge the integrity of a very well respected, long term member of the list. This thread is done for me now. Bring back on the IPv6 questions Steve sure thing buddy. why does ipv6 irritate the hell out of me? :-D i guess its the really odd jump of having to remember the address schematic. an on top of that, i breaks my software so bad that we're dropping some code that has worked for 20 years. but hey, its an improvement right? -- Marlene Dietrich - Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they do not like h... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: please remove all search results with name Constantin Stalzer
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 8:52 PM, prad p...@towardsfreedom.com wrote: On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 20:38:26 -0500 Steve Bertrand st...@ibctech.ca wrote: Jerry made a very valid point. i think so too. assuming that constantin was sincere in his request, a simple explanation as to what the difficulties are would have sufficed. we can personally and/or anonymously find such a thing humorous, but it is probably best not to make mockery of this sort of thing publically. -- In friendship, prad hindsite=20/20 i agree now that i think about it. but what about the ipv6?! Bob Hope - I have a wonderful make-up crew. They're the same people restoring the Statue of Liberty. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: laptop battery + i2c bus reprogramming
Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Jan 10), michael said: several of my laptop batteries(L-ION) have an i2c bus to the eeprom inside the case. is it possible to reprogram or reset a battery i have repacked from within freebsd or will i need to do this with the available windows programs? what i'm asking is if freebsd actually supports sending of data over the i2c bus from userland. The iic driver seems to provide ioctls for userland manipulation; as long as you know what to send (and assuming the kernel driver finds the i2c chip), it should work. I noticed the same things, but I wasn't sure if any of the real ground work had been done. I've been replacing the cells in my batteries for a while now because I get 40-60% more gain from home built compared to new batteries from the manufacturer. I'm just tired of the licensing from the software I was using because it limits how many eeproms you can re flash. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: NFS or an alternative?
Chuck Swiger wrote: On Jan 12, 2009, at 9:56 PM, Jay Hall wrote: I am in the process of redesigning my organization's network. And, since we will be using mostly Macintosh OS X clients, I am considering using NFS. However, I will need the ability to perform user/group authentication since users may not always log in from the same PC. Essentially, each user has a home directory which only they, and possibly their secretary, needs to have access to. And, we have directories which groups of people need access to. Given the above requirements, Samba/CIFS is probably a better match for what you are doing that NFS would be. you could try webdav. apple's iDisk. i have used this on our corporate network for a while now, and allows mounting from any workstation. From the reading I have done this evening, my understanding is NFSv4 will meet all of these needs. Is this correct? And, is there a better way to accomplish this? Note that Apple only ships NFSv3-aware software, and I'm not sure whether FreeBSD supports NFSv4 yet either. There appears to be external work here: http://snowhite.cis.uoguelph.ca/nfsv4/ http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/nfsv4/ ...which you might look into. Regards, ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Restore deleted files
Polytropon wrote: Hi, I'd like to ask a two-stage question: 1. Is it possible to recover files that have been deleted? 2. Which tools or procedures are suggested for recovery? While sorting out some files and transfering them to another hard disk, I accidentally deleted too much: the directory with my videos taken by a digital camera. They were located in a directory within a subtree, and I deleted the whole subtree without first copying these files. I used the Midnight Commander to do this. As I read from its source code, it seems to use the unlink() call to delete the subtree recursively. Pressing PF8 can really ruin your day... Just after I noticed what I had done I unmounted the file system, powered off the machine and put the disk on the shelf (it's still there), no further write accesses. I would be glad if someone could enlighten me if there is any chance to get the files back, even with the loss of the file names (doesn't matter), and which tools seem to serve best in this difficult task. And if it's impossible, please tell me. I can newfs the disk then and free it, along with my mind. PS. I'm posting this question to -fs, too. Answers from this list please keep me in CC because I'm not subscribed to -fs. Thank you! See if this can help you, it recognizes and recovers files based on headers, data structures, etc. not names. http://foremost.sourceforge.net/ this along with a couple of the other tools people have mentioned should get you back to where you need to be. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager
why not just add loader or whatever to the windows boot loader.. unless you specifically need fbsd boot manager Grant Peel wrote: Hi all, For those that have been following this thread: I now have Norton GoBack uninstalled and un-hooked from the MBR -Had to go to Symantec and get a rescue disk, -The rescue disk tried to un-hook GOBAck from the MBR, -It found the MBR borken (due to the FreeBSD Boot Manager install), -So the rescue disk ran all night restoring the original C-Drive, -As of this morning, I once again have a bottoable windows system, -FreeBSD 6.4 is intalled, but, -I have not boot manager so I cant get to the FReeBSD installation. Can someone (please!) explain how to install the FreeBSD boot manager again? THanks all, -Grant - Original Message - From: Steve Bertrand st...@ibctech.ca To: Grant Peel gp...@thenetnow.com Cc: Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2009 9:39 PM Subject: Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager Grant Peel wrote: So then, IF we are able to restore the Windows MBR, and boot into windows, should we not be able to boot the machine with a bootable FreeBSD disk, then, use Sysinstall to restore the FreeBSD boot manager? Yes, that is exactly what I was getting at. Steve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager
also, doing it the way i suggested will still give you the option to re-select windows, and then from there right back to freebsd is you accidentally hit the wrong button. creates a nice loop. eg: machine boots, windows shows you Windows XP or FreeBSD you select FreeBSD, you get the menu you want from there F1 FreeBSD F2 Microsoft Windows F5 DiskX Selecting windows will take you back to the windows loader, and then you could select windows or freebsd. Grant Peel wrote: Hi Mike, I am not at all sure whate you are suggesting here? What I am asking, is, somehting like: Can I reboot the machine with the FreeBSD install disk, and using the sysinstall utility, reinstall the freebsd boot manger so I wind up with: F1 Windows F2 FreeBSD F5 Disk1 -Grant - Original Message - From: Michael Copeland michael.copel...@gmail.com To: Grant Peel gp...@thenetnow.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Friday, January 09, 2009 9:44 AM Subject: Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager why not just add loader or whatever to the windows boot loader.. unless you specifically need fbsd boot manager Grant Peel wrote: Hi all, For those that have been following this thread: I now have Norton GoBack uninstalled and un-hooked from the MBR -Had to go to Symantec and get a rescue disk, -The rescue disk tried to un-hook GOBAck from the MBR, -It found the MBR borken (due to the FreeBSD Boot Manager install), -So the rescue disk ran all night restoring the original C-Drive, -As of this morning, I once again have a bottoable windows system, -FreeBSD 6.4 is intalled, but, -I have not boot manager so I cant get to the FReeBSD installation. Can someone (please!) explain how to install the FreeBSD boot manager again? THanks all, -Grant - Original Message - From: Steve Bertrand st...@ibctech.ca To: Grant Peel gp...@thenetnow.com Cc: Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2009 9:39 PM Subject: Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager Grant Peel wrote: So then, IF we are able to restore the Windows MBR, and boot into windows, should we not be able to boot the machine with a bootable FreeBSD disk, then, use Sysinstall to restore the FreeBSD boot manager? Yes, that is exactly what I was getting at. Steve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Problem compiling gnome2
rg wrote: Hello, I am trying to compile gnome2, but libggz fails to compile because of missing library: gcrypt1.5. It does on to complile security/libgcrypt, but evidently the current version 1.4.3 doesn't help much. How can I fight with this beast? Thank you. i would assume upgrade to 1.5 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager
well, there are many easy ways. one is to install an IFS version of UFS, if you're using ufs. that way windows can read the ufs slices and you can grab your file that way. Grant Peel wrote: Mike, In order to do that, I need to be able to get the the /boot/boot1 file that is located in the root of the FreeBSD installation. As of right now, I cant get to it, because I can't boot to FreeBSD (chicken and egg). Any ideas? -Grant In the instructions link you sent: 9.10. How can I use the Windows NT® loader to boot FreeBSD? The general idea is that you copy the first sector of your native root FreeBSD partition into a file in the DOS/Windows NT partition. Assuming you name that file something like c:\bootsect.bsd (inspired by c:\bootsect.dos), you can then edit the c:\boot.ini file to come up with something like this: [boot loader] timeout=30 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS=Windows NT C:\BOOTSECT.BSD=FreeBSD C:\=DOS If FreeBSD is installed on the same disk as the Windows NT boot partition simply copy /boot/boot1 to C:\BOOTSECT.BSD. However, if FreeBSD is installed on a different disk /boot/boot1 will not work, /boot/boot0 is needed. - Original Message - From: Michael Copeland michael.copel...@gmail.com To: Grant Peel gp...@thenetnow.com Sent: Friday, January 09, 2009 9:57 AM Subject: Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager Hello Grant, What I am suggesting is adding a freebsd entry to your windows boot loader. it is quite easy. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/faq/disks.html#NT-BOOTLOADER rather than having to deal with using sysinstall, usually its just as simple to add these entries to the windows loader. Grant Peel wrote: Hi Mike, I am not at all sure whate you are suggesting here? What I am asking, is, somehting like: Can I reboot the machine with the FreeBSD install disk, and using the sysinstall utility, reinstall the freebsd boot manger so I wind up with: F1 Windows F2 FreeBSD F5 Disk1 -Grant - Original Message - From: Michael Copeland michael.copel...@gmail.com To: Grant Peel gp...@thenetnow.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Friday, January 09, 2009 9:44 AM Subject: Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager why not just add loader or whatever to the windows boot loader.. unless you specifically need fbsd boot manager Grant Peel wrote: Hi all, For those that have been following this thread: I now have Norton GoBack uninstalled and un-hooked from the MBR -Had to go to Symantec and get a rescue disk, -The rescue disk tried to un-hook GOBAck from the MBR, -It found the MBR borken (due to the FreeBSD Boot Manager install), -So the rescue disk ran all night restoring the original C-Drive, -As of this morning, I once again have a bottoable windows system, -FreeBSD 6.4 is intalled, but, -I have not boot manager so I cant get to the FReeBSD installation. Can someone (please!) explain how to install the FreeBSD boot manager again? THanks all, -Grant - Original Message - From: Steve Bertrand st...@ibctech.ca To: Grant Peel gp...@thenetnow.com Cc: Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2009 9:39 PM Subject: Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager Grant Peel wrote: So then, IF we are able to restore the Windows MBR, and boot into windows, should we not be able to boot the machine with a bootable FreeBSD disk, then, use Sysinstall to restore the FreeBSD boot manager? Yes, that is exactly what I was getting at. Steve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager
Jerry McAllister wrote: On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 09:33:12PM -0500, Grant Peel wrote: Can I use a windows install cd's R option to do the fdisk /mbr ? Maybe.But, MS software is notorious for not recognizing any other OSen nor being able to boot them So, use the FreeBSD fdisk which will plant the FreeBSD MBR. jerry has this issue been resolved? what route did you choose to accomplish your task? -Grant - Original Message - From: Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com To: Grant Peel gp...@thenetnow.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2009 8:23 PM Subject: Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 5:17 PM, Grant Peel gp...@thenetnow.com wrote: Hi all, I was bored earlier tonight and I decided to tinker a bit with FreeBSD 6.4 on my Windows XP SP3 box. In that machine, there is one SATA drive. On that drive, there was about 100 GB of free space, so I decided to try putting FreeBSD 6.4 on it. During the install, I opted to use the Free BSD boot manage. The install went flawlessly. The problem is, when I boot up I get: F1 ?? F2 FreeBSD F5 Disk1 F2, is obviously, the new installation of FreeBSD 6.4, which boots perfectly. F5 is a spare SCSI disk connected to an Initio controller. F1 is the probelem. Windose no longer boots. When I select F2, I simply get the cursor on a new line, and nothing happens. Like this: F1 ?? F2 FreeBSD F5 Disk1 _ Any idea what I might need to do to make windows work again? It may be worth mentioning, I had Norton GoBack running on the disk before I installed FreeBSD, although I am not aware if it does anything to the booting system. All suggestions welcome, -Grant www.bootdisk.com Find a bootable floppy image there that includes a DOS fdisk, and write it out to a floppy disk. Boot your machine with that floppy, and at the DOS prompt, type 'fdisk /mbr' - it will write a standard boot sector, and Windows should boot again. Of course, this will not allow you to boot to your new FreeBSD installation, but with other folks' help, you can probably overcome that - probably with GRUB, or another boot manager. Kurt ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
