Re: Hosed my MBR?

2006-04-14 Thread Doug Poland
On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 01:27:03PM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Tue, April 11, 2006 09:08, Jerry McAllister wrote: I'm in a bit of a mess here. I've got an Asus P4C800-E Deluxe motherboard with two on-board SATA RAID controllers, an Intel MatrixRAID (ICH5R) and Promise

Re: Hosed my MBR?

2006-04-14 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 01:27:03PM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Tue, April 11, 2006 09:08, Jerry McAllister wrote: I'm in a bit of a mess here. I've got an Asus P4C800-E Deluxe motherboard with two on-board SATA RAID controllers, an Intel MatrixRAID (ICH5R) and

Re: Hosed my MBR?

2006-04-14 Thread Doug Poland
have used a FreeBSD MBR to fix a hosed MBR (hosed by Ghost) on an XP only (eg. no FreeBSD on it) machine and it worked fine. really? I suspect it was sysinstall's fdisk that hosed my MBR on the Intel controller in the first place. Cause now it brings up a broken FreeBSD boot loader instead

Re: Hosed my MBR?

2006-04-14 Thread Jerry McAllister
, the FreeBSD MBR is. I have used a FreeBSD MBR to fix a hosed MBR (hosed by Ghost) on an XP only (eg. no FreeBSD on it) machine and it worked fine. really? I suspect it was sysinstall's fdisk that hosed my MBR on the Intel controller in the first place. Cause now it brings up a broken FreeBSD

Re: Hosed my MBR?

2006-04-14 Thread Doug Poland
On Fri, Apr 14, 2006 at 12:49:50PM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: I can still boot FreeBSD off my FastTrack controller (ar0), that's where I'm writing this email from. I can see both the Intel RAID device (ar1), and mount the data from NTFS (ar1s1), and newly created UFS-2 (ar1s2). I

Re: Hosed my MBR?

2006-04-11 Thread Jerry McAllister
FreeBSD/i386 boot Default: 0:ad(0,a)/boot/kernel/kernel boot: --- So it would seem I hosed my MBR. The question is, how did I do it and how do I fix it? I would think that when I choose to leave the MBR untouched in sysinstall, that it would do just that. I cannot use the old DOS boot

Re: Hosed my MBR?

2006-04-11 Thread Doug Poland
On Tue, April 11, 2006 09:08, Jerry McAllister wrote: I'm in a bit of a mess here. I've got an Asus P4C800-E Deluxe motherboard with two on-board SATA RAID controllers, an Intel MatrixRAID (ICH5R) and Promise Fasttrak (PDC20378). My BIOS allows me to boot from either the Promise or the

Re: Hosed my MBR?

2006-04-11 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, April 11, 2006 09:08, Jerry McAllister wrote: I'm in a bit of a mess here. I've got an Asus P4C800-E Deluxe motherboard with two on-board SATA RAID controllers, an Intel MatrixRAID (ICH5R) and Promise Fasttrak (PDC20378). My BIOS allows me to boot from either the Promise or

Hosed my MBR?

2006-04-10 Thread Doug Poland
/kernel/kernel boot: --- So it would seem I hosed my MBR. The question is, how did I do it and how do I fix it? I would think that when I choose to leave the MBR untouched in sysinstall, that it would do just that. I cannot use the old DOS boot floppy trick of: fdisk /MBR as DOS

Re: Hosed my MBR?

2006-04-10 Thread Huy Ton That
seem I hosed my MBR. The question is, how did I do it and how do I fix it? I would think that when I choose to leave the MBR untouched in sysinstall, that it would do just that. I cannot use the old DOS boot floppy trick of: fdisk /MBR as DOS will not recognize my Intel controller. Windows

Re: Hosed my MBR?

2006-04-10 Thread Doug Poland
(PDC20378). My BIOS allows me to boot from either the Promise or the Intel controller. ... The problem is, now, when I attempt to boot off the Intel controller, I get a FreeBSD boot load failure: Invalid Partition Invalid Partition So it would seem I hosed my MBR. The question