Le dimanche 5 mai 2013 22:20:43 Giorgos Keramidas a écrit :
On Mon, 29 Apr 2013 13:29:18 +0200, David Demelier
demelier.da...@gmail.com wrote:
2013/4/18 David Demelier demelier.da...@gmail.com:
Hello,
I would like to use ZFS over MBR for multiboot purposes. I've followed
that guide https
partitions. The original post was about an MBR
partition table.
Some modern laptops (mine is one) do not boot successfully from a disk
with a GPT partition scheme, unless the boot loader is EFI-capable
(which ours isn't). So you have to use an MBR-style partition table.
In those cases the note
I had to set up ZFS on MBR lately.
Since I'm lazy I wrote a script for that.
Maybe it would suit your needs (it's very simple though).
https://bitbucket.org/ukaszg/freebsd-zfs-on-mbr-installer
2013/5/9 Giorgos Keramidas keram...@ceid.upatras.gr:
On Sun, 05 May 2013 17:56:49 -0500, Joshua Isom
On Mon, 29 Apr 2013 13:29:18 +0200, David Demelier demelier.da...@gmail.com
wrote:
2013/4/18 David Demelier demelier.da...@gmail.com:
Hello,
I would like to use ZFS over MBR for multiboot purposes. I've followed
that guide https://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/ZFSBootPartition but it
does
On 5/5/2013 3:20 PM, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
Hi David,
Thanks for following up with what the real problem was. I updated the
Wiki to include this:
Note that partition order is important. It seems that zfsboot
requires the freebsd-zfs partition to be the first, so make sure you
2013/4/18 David Demelier demelier.da...@gmail.com:
Hello,
I would like to use ZFS over MBR for multiboot purposes. I've followed
that guide https://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/ZFSBootPartition but it
does not boot at all. The loader does not show up after choosing
FreeBSD in the boot0 loader
Hello,
I would like to use ZFS over MBR for multiboot purposes. I've followed
that guide https://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/ZFSBootPartition but it
does not boot at all. The loader does not show up after choosing
FreeBSD in the boot0 loader.
The _ prompt appears but nothing starts. I've found
I am trying to use bsdinstall to create a MBR partitioned disk. I can set the
partition type to MBR fine. However, when trying to add in slices I can't
figure out what to enter for the parameters. Everything I have tried gives an
error message. I wanted one for / and one for swap. How do I
On Tue, 12 Mar 2013 18:36:15 -0700, Doug Hardie wrote:
I am trying to use bsdinstall to create a MBR partitioned disk.
I can set the partition type to MBR fine. However, when trying
to add in slices I can't figure out what to enter for the parameters.
Everything I have tried gives an error
On Tue, 12 Mar 2013, Doug Hardie wrote:
I am trying to use bsdinstall to create a MBR partitioned disk. I can
set the partition type to MBR fine. However, when trying to add in
slices I can't figure out what to enter for the parameters.
Everything I have tried gives an error message. I
Hi,
On Tue, 12 Mar 2013 18:36:15 -0700
Doug Hardie bc...@lafn.org wrote:
I am trying to use bsdinstall to create a MBR partitioned disk. I
can set the partition type to MBR fine. However, when trying to add
in slices I can't figure out what to enter for the parameters.
Everything I have
On 12 March 2013, at 18:50, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote:
On Tue, 12 Mar 2013, Doug Hardie wrote:
I am trying to use bsdinstall to create a MBR partitioned disk. I can set
the partition type to MBR fine. However, when trying to add in slices I
can't figure out what to enter
I am trying to partition a disk to be used as the primary boot disk for a
FreeBSD 8.3
installation using gpart to install an MBR partition.
The system is an existing FreeBSD 5.2.1 system at a remote location (ie
impossible to boot
from CD/netboot/etc), but has no data of value. To do this I am
On Fri, 7 Sep 2012, markham breitbach wrote:
I am trying to partition a disk to be used as the primary boot disk for a
FreeBSD 8.3
installation using gpart to install an MBR partition.
The system is an existing FreeBSD 5.2.1 system at a remote location (ie
impossible to boot
from CD/netboot
Thanks Warren!
I was always under the impression that partition 3 was not to be touched as the
raw
partition, so figured it was best left alone.
I was mostly concerned with installing MBR so it would still be compatible with
sysinstall, although I can't really think of a terribly good reason
/doc/handbook/geom-glabel.html
regarding labels (GEOM labels, UFS labels, UFSIDs).
I was mostly concerned with installing MBR so it would still be compatible
with
sysinstall, although I can't really think of a terribly good reason not to go
GPT.
Maybe that is significant only on older
Hello there, people!
I have a FreeBSD box with 9.1-RC3 i386 and an interesting HDD.
It was patitioned with GPT and zfs some (long) time ago. After that
the hdd has been completely repartitioned with MBR scheme and one
single freebsd (165) partition and one slice there. It worked fine in
7.2
On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 1:54 AM, Виталий Туровец core...@corebug.net wrote:
So
my question is: how do i force the system to ignore old corrupt GPT
header on this hdd, or how do i remove the header, or is there any
workaround possible?
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ada1 bs=64k
2012/8/30 Michael Sierchio ku...@tenebras.com:
On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 1:54 AM, Виталий Туровец core...@corebug.net wrote:
So
my question is: how do i force the system to ignore old corrupt GPT
header on this hdd, or how do i remove the header, or is there any
workaround possible?
dd
On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 4:18 AM, Виталий Туровец core...@corebug.net wrote:
Well, i thought that my need to get files from hdd is easy enough to
understand from my original message:)
Извините, пожалуйста!
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On Thu, 30 Aug 2012, ??? ??? wrote:
Hello there, people!
I have a FreeBSD box with 9.1-RC3 i386 and an interesting HDD.
It was patitioned with GPT and zfs some (long) time ago. After that
the hdd has been completely repartitioned with MBR scheme and one
single freebsd (165) partition
2012/8/30 Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com:
On Thu, 30 Aug 2012, ??? ??? wrote:
Hello there, people!
I have a FreeBSD box with 9.1-RC3 i386 and an interesting HDD.
It was patitioned with GPT and zfs some (long) time ago. After that
the hdd has been completely repartitioned with MBR
On Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:32:10 +
Kaya Saman kayasa...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
am just wondering if anyone has successfully managed to boot FreeBSD
9.0 and Linux.
I run Fedora 16 x64 with Grub installed in my MBR.
FBSD9 installed as the new disk scheme GPT. I think (I manually
On 01/28/2012 08:54 AM, Bas Smeelen wrote:
On Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:32:10 +
Kaya Samankayasa...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
am just wondering if anyone has successfully managed to boot FreeBSD
9.0 and Linux.
I run Fedora 16 x64 with Grub installed in my MBR.
FBSD9 installed as the new disk
Hi,
am just wondering if anyone has successfully managed to boot FreeBSD 9.0
and Linux.
I run Fedora 16 x64 with Grub installed in my MBR.
FBSD9 installed as the new disk scheme GPT. I think (I manually
partitioned as my disk is quite crowded).
Anyway I found this:
http
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 390, Issue 1, Message: 18
On Mon, 21 Nov 2011 01:47:27 + Bruce Cran br...@cran.org.uk wrote:
I'm planning to install FreeBSD alongside a whole range of Windows
builds for testing. In 8.x it's possible to tell the installer not to
bother updating the MBR
I'm planning to install FreeBSD alongside a whole range of Windows
builds for testing. In 8.x it's possible to tell the installer not to
bother updating the MBR so you can use something like EasyBCD to boot it
via the Windows bootloader instead. Is it still possible on 9.0-RC2
using bsdinstall
Hi All,
I had to install Linux to participate in a project I was involved with.
Now is all finished I have restored the partition but now
need a 3bsd boot sector back. Scheme is ;
0 Primary XP
0 Extended FAT32
1 Primary FreeBSD
Approx 1/3 disc for each. How can I restore the 3bsd
boot sector?
the boot sector (make no change to the slice
listing, maybe mark the FreeBSD slice as active, then
exit the screen and choose either standard MBR or the
boot manager depending on your requirements).
As I'm not a multi-boot person, I can't be more specific,
sorry.
--
Polytropon
Magdeburg, Germany
Happy
On Mon, 5 Sep 2011, Graham Bentley wrote:
I had to install Linux to participate in a project I was involved with.
Now is all finished I have restored the partition but now
need a 3bsd boot sector back. Scheme is ;
0 Primary XP
0 Extended FAT32
1 Primary FreeBSD
Approx 1/3 disc for each. How
I recently changed my raid0 into two raid1's so I can have redundancy.
Getting a disk to boot was harder than I ever remember. Part of the
problem, my gigabyte bios locks up hard if there's a gpt usb drive
plugged in, not even scanning the memory. It seems to be a little known
problem. Some
think I'd
tried the MBR install.
Daniel T. Staal
I had the same problem. Today, I tried using the PCBSD dvd to install
FreeBSD on ZFS (with /boot on UFS). It kept giving errors just before
completion. However, some comments I found while googling about that
problem mentioned that the installation
.
I know that there is way to do this on GPT partitions, but I need MBR ones ...
Any help appreciated,
vermaden
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/executed. (I've been
trying to work around using `bin/cp -pRP boot bootdir/`. Note the lack of
the leading slash.)
I had tried several of the other installs from
http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS successfully, but I don't think I'd
tried the MBR install.
Daniel T. Staal
Anything interesting happening during your install?
I would say no, everything seems smooth until I try to boot it.
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How long are you waiting? What are you booting from?
On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 7:54 PM, Slawomir Wojtczak verma...@gmx.com wrote:
Anything interesting happening during your install?
I would say no, everything seems smooth until I try to boot it.
On Wednesday 08 December 2010 22:08:56 xinyou yan wrote:
1. when i install freebsd . I can write mbr and not write
if i write mbr . freebsd can Identification windows and load it
first, you are talking about boot loaders or boot managers; its different from
MBR witch means master boot
1. when i install freebsd . I can write mbr and not write
if i write mbr . freebsd can Identification windows and load it
2 if i do not write . How windows load bsd
3. Can freebsd load linux (fedora)? and how ?
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On 12/09/10 15:08, xinyou yan wrote:
1. when i install freebsd . I can write mbr and not write
if i write mbr . freebsd can Identification windows and load it
2 if i do not write . How windows load bsd
3. Can freebsd load linux (fedora)? and how
the required files to
/boot/grub. I created a menu.lst in /boot/grub.
I created a bootable grub cd which boots the operating system.
I then tried to copy stage1 to the MBR with:
fdisk -B -b /boot/grub/stage1 ad4
2 prompts: one to write to MBR, which I answered 'y', and the other to
modify
was that either fdisk didn't recognize the mbr
after all the 'gpart create'-ing or simply couldn't start newfs. (Something
about not being able to find an initial inode.) I figured 'gpart destroy ad0'
might fix things but no such luck. fdisk -I ad0 also errors out saying unable
to locate class.
Does anyone know
do a
vanilla install. Problem was that either fdisk didn't recognize the mbr
after all the 'gpart create'-ing or simply couldn't start newfs. (Something
about not being able to find an initial inode.) I figured 'gpart destroy ad0'
might fix things but no such luck. fdisk -I ad0 also errors out
on 25/01/2010 04:41 Robert Noland said the following:
On Mon, 2010-01-25 at 07:57 +1100, Mark Andrews wrote:
offset The offset of the start of the partition from the beginning of
the drive in sectors, or * to have bsdlabel calculate the
correct
offset to use
Andriy Gapon wrote:
on 25/01/2010 04:41 Robert Noland said the following:
On Mon, 2010-01-25 at 07:57 +1100, Mark Andrews wrote:
offset The offset of the start of the partition from the beginning of
the drive in sectors, or * to have bsdlabel calculate the correct
On Mon, 2010-01-25 at 09:45 +, Matthew Seaman wrote:
Andriy Gapon wrote:
on 25/01/2010 04:41 Robert Noland said the following:
On Mon, 2010-01-25 at 07:57 +1100, Mark Andrews wrote:
offset The offset of the start of the partition from the beginning
of
the drive
2010/1/22, Dan Naumov dan.nau...@gmail.com:
Putting the swap into it's own slice and then putting FreeBSD into
it's own slice worked fine. So why the hell can't they both coexist in
1 slice if the swap comes first?
Similar problem here: I have a full-zfs system in a bsd slice, but I
have the
a nifty FreeBSD ZFS root installation script and
been reworking it a bit to suit my needs better, including changing it
from GPT to MBR partitioning. However, I was stumped, even though I
had done everything right (or so I thought), the system would get
stuck at Loader and refuse to go
at 05:57:23AM +0200, Dan Naumov wrote:
Hi,
I recently found a nifty FreeBSD ZFS root installation script and
been reworking it a bit to suit my needs better, including changing it
from GPT to MBR partitioning. However, I was stumped, even though I
had done everything right (or so I
=
it
from GPT to MBR partitioning. However, I was stumped, even though I
had done everything right (or so I thought), the system would get
stuck at Loader and refuse to go anywhere. After trying over a dozen
probably this line is the cause:
dd if=3D/mnt2/boot/zfsboot of=3D/dev
and
been reworking it a bit to suit my needs better, including changing =
it
from GPT to MBR partitioning. However, I was stumped, even though I
had done everything right (or so I thought), the system would get
stuck at Loader and refuse to go anywhere. After trying over a dozen
I recently found a nifty FreeBSD ZFS root installation script and
been reworking it a bit to suit my needs better, including changing it
from GPT to MBR partitioning. However, I was stumped, even though I
had done everything right (or so I thought), the system would get
stuck at Loader and refuse
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 05:57:23AM +0200, Dan Naumov wrote:
Hi,
I recently found a nifty FreeBSD ZFS root installation script and
been reworking it a bit to suit my needs better, including changing it
from GPT to MBR partitioning. However, I was stumped, even though I
had done everything
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 6:12 AM, Thomas K. f...@gothschlampen.com wrote:
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 05:57:23AM +0200, Dan Naumov wrote:
Hi,
I recently found a nifty FreeBSD ZFS root installation script and
been reworking it a bit to suit my needs better, including changing it
from GPT to MBR
it a bit to suit my needs better, including changing it
from GPT to MBR partitioning. However, I was stumped, even though I
had done everything right (or so I thought), the system would get
stuck at Loader and refuse to go anywhere. After trying over a dozen
probably this line is the cause:
dd
I have a few questions about this PR:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=115406cat=bin
1) Is this bug now officially fixed as of 8.0-RELEASE? Ie, can I
expect to set up a completely GPT-based system using an Intel
D945GCLF2 board and not have the installation crap out on me later?
2) The
Dan Naumov wrote:
What exactly is gart and where do I find it's manpage,
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi comes up with nothing? Also, does
this mean that GPT is _NOT_ in fact fixed regarding this bug?
That's gpart(8). With a 'p'. gpart has had significant amounts of
work put into it for
Just did an install on a disk. Never seen this before, but I made my
own partitions instead of 'a' for automatic, and they came up as
ad0s1c-g, instead of ad0s1a-e.
Sysinstall (7.2 release) seemed to progress complete just fine.
When I try to boot the disk, I get invalid partition, then boot:
On Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:48:01 -0700, Steve Franks bahamasfra...@gmail.com
wrote:
So, I jump back to the liveFS disk, thinking sysinstall zorked the
disk, but I can mount the disk (ad0s1d) just fine, and see the
contents of /mnt/boot/kernel and see /mnt/boot/loader* (never seen a
file with a *
, Anselm Strauss wrote:
Hi,
I'm trying to partition a compact flash card with gpart. When I want
to create a new MBR scheme it always complains:
- gpart create -s mbr da0
gpart: scheme 'mbr': Invalid argument
The GPT scheme works fine:
- gpart create -s gpt da0
da0 created
- gpart show da0
Hi,
I'm trying to partition a compact flash card with gpart. When I want
to create a new MBR scheme it always complains:
- gpart create -s mbr da0
gpart: scheme 'mbr': Invalid argument
The GPT scheme works fine:
- gpart create -s gpt da0
da0 created
- gpart show da0
= 34 8027645 da0
I have been trying to install FreeBSD 7.2 on a i386 system with a Dell
Perc 2/QC SCSI raid card. The root files system is on a raid 1
volume. However, after installation the system will not boot. The
BIOS complains that it cannot find the master boot record. During
installation, I installed a
to check the mbr nad fix it if necessary?
Currently, I have a boot drive as the primary, and the one mentioned above as a
second drive on the machine. The first drive is a ATA and the second (broken)
is a SCSI.
-GRant
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a 'BTX HAlted when I try to boot it.
You probably missed a flag somewhere to tell sysinstall that a boot file
should be written. (Why d? / usually appears in a.)
IS there a way to check the mbr nad fix it if necessary?
You have already checked it by attempting to boot from it, right
All of a sudden my MBR prompt has disapeared and replaced by the following:
Intel(R) Boot Agent FEv4.1.17
Copyright (C) 1997-2004, Intel Corporation
Intel(R) BootAgent PXE Base Code (PXE-2.1 buildbuild 085)
Copyright (C) 1997-2004, Intel Corporation
Client MAC addr
At 03:09 PM 5/13/2007, Joseph Marah wrote:
All of a sudden my MBR prompt has disapeared and replaced by the following:
Intel(R) Boot Agent FEv4.1.17
Copyright (C) 1997-2004, Intel Corporation
Intel(R) BootAgent PXE Base Code (PXE-2.1 buildbuild 085)
Copyright (C) 1997-2004, Intel
After reintalling windows i want to install FreeBSD boot loader
(/boot/boot0), after the second operation of record of the loader is carried
out writes about the following (precisely I do not remember that wrote
fdisk):
MBR not write
Invalid Geom
Esteemed handbook and has tried by means
Fasttrak (PDC20378). My BIOS
allows me to boot from either the Promise or the Intel
controller.
Well, the install CD is also the fixit CD. You can try booting
from it and choosing the shell and then trying to run the fdisk
from that environment to replace the MBR.
I have done
) and Promise Fasttrak (PDC20378). My BIOS
allows me to boot from either the Promise or the Intel
controller.
Well, the install CD is also the fixit CD. You can try booting
from it and choosing the shell and then trying to run the fdisk
from that environment to replace the MBR
On Fri, Apr 14, 2006 at 11:51:58AM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote:
In your case, it sounds like you have two raid devices, one on
each controller. You would have to have an MBR on each and it
sounds like you think you wiped the one on the INTEL controller.
Figure out what device
On Fri, Apr 14, 2006 at 11:51:58AM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote:
In your case, it sounds like you have two raid devices, one on
each controller. You would have to have an MBR on each and it
sounds like you think you wiped the one on the INTEL controller.
Figure out what
even did a dd of the MBR from ar0 and ar1
and compared the two. Of course, I don't know what I'm looking at
so that didn't go too far :)
This has lasted long enough that I am forgetting parts, such as it is
the MS piece that doesn't boot, not the FreeBSD.
But, if you get a FreeBSD boot
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
or the Intel controller.
Well, the install CD is also the fixit CD. You can try booting from
it and choosing the shell and then trying to run the fdisk from that
environment to replace the MBR.
I have done that for people who have hosed their MBR on machines with
Ghost - even their XP only, no FreeBSD
or the Intel controller.
Well, the install CD is also the fixit CD. You can try booting from
it and choosing the shell and then trying to run the fdisk from that
environment to replace the MBR.
I have done that for people who have hosed their MBR on machines with
Ghost - even their XP
/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
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
(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
o http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q140418/
o http://www.ranish.com/part/primer.htm
o http://cnlart.web.cern.ch/cnlart/236/disk_partition.html
o http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-HOWTO/Large-Disk-HOWTO.html#s6
o http://mirror.href.com/thestarman/asm/mbr/DiskTerms.htm
o http://home.att.net
[Apologies. Posting again with thread header.]
For those who might be interested...
Message: 26
Date: Sun, 05 Mar 2006 13:46:30 -0500
From: Gerard Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Help with lost MBR on USB HDD
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
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Date: Sun, 05 Mar 2006 13:46:30 -0500
From: Gerard Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Help with lost MBR on USB HDD
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
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I know you do not want to hear this, but why
For anyone who might be interested...
Jarrod O'Flaherty wrote:
And last but not least, I really hope someone can tell me how I can
salvage my MBR other 3 partitions. If that is not possible, then
perhaps you can point me in the direction of a tool which will
salvage
the files
at the MBR under fdisk and it had 2 entries, one
for the logical partition and one for the new physical partition I had
setup with PartExp.
I must admit I was more comfortable with the fdisk in sysinstall, since
I had used that when installing FreeBSD, so I changed to that one. The
display seemed a little
it under XP then I can do this
under FreeBSD. I looked at the MBR under fdisk and it had 2 entries, one
for the logical partition and one for the new physical partition I had
setup with PartExp.
I must admit I was more comfortable with the fdisk in sysinstall, since
I had used that when
--- Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
--- Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I added a slice to a single hard drive dual-boot (windows) system
and
now
I guess that scrambled my MBR. I get three options from the
FreeBSD
(5.4)
boot manager
Peter wrote:
--- Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
--- Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I added a slice to a single hard drive dual-boot (windows) system
and
now
I guess that scrambled my MBR. I get three options from the
FreeBSD
(5.4)
boot manager:
1. DOS
2
I need help.
I added a slice to a single hard drive dual-boot (windows) system and now
I guess that scrambled my MBR. I get three options from the FreeBSD (5.4)
boot manager:
1. DOS
2. FreeBSD
3. FreeBSD
I can boot to FreeBSD (the new slice is fine) by choosing option 3
Jerry McAllister wrote:
I need help.
I added a slice to a single hard drive dual-boot (windows) system and now
I guess that scrambled my MBR. I get three options from the FreeBSD (5.4)
boot manager:
1. DOS
2. FreeBSD
3. FreeBSD
I can boot to FreeBSD (the new slice is fine) by choosing option
--- Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I need help.
I added a slice to a single hard drive dual-boot (windows) system and
now
I guess that scrambled my MBR. I get three options from the FreeBSD
(5.4)
boot manager:
1. DOS
2. FreeBSD
3. FreeBSD
I can boot
--- Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I need help.
I added a slice to a single hard drive dual-boot (windows) system and
now
I guess that scrambled my MBR. I get three options from the FreeBSD
(5.4)
boot manager:
1. DOS
2. FreeBSD
3. FreeBSD
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 21:19:07 -0500 (EST)
From: Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: MBR blown away
To: freebsd-questions freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
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I need help.
I added a slice to a single hard drive dual-boot
I need help.
I added a slice to a single hard drive dual-boot (windows) system and now
I guess that scrambled my MBR. I get three options from the FreeBSD (5.4)
boot manager:
1. DOS
2. FreeBSD
3. FreeBSD
I can boot to FreeBSD (the new slice is fine) by choosing option 3 but the
windows/dos
Peter wrote:
I need help.
I added a slice to a single hard drive dual-boot (windows) system and now
I guess that scrambled my MBR. I get three options from the FreeBSD (5.4)
boot manager:
1. DOS
2. FreeBSD
3. FreeBSD
I would think that the appearance of the above menu, and the fact
Peter wrote:
I need help.
I added a slice to a single hard drive dual-boot (windows) system and now
I guess that scrambled my MBR. I get three options from the FreeBSD (5.4)
boot manager:
1. DOS
2. FreeBSD
3. FreeBSD
I can boot to FreeBSD (the new slice is fine) by choosing option 3
to the new one and finally copy MBR from old hard drive to the
new one... .
Can it be a solution to the problem of changing hard drives of my computer or
that that I tell is a stupid thing??
Thx
Javier,
Have a look at man dd.
Rob
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Take a look at freebsd cheat sheets - moving to a larger hard drive.
Damon
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Subject: how to copy MBR??
Hi, I will change the hard drive of my computer and I was
thinking that maybe
to the new one and
finally copy MBR
from old hard drive to the new one... .
Can it be a solution to the problem of changing hard drives of my computer or
that that I tell
is a stupid thing??
Thx
Hello Javier
If I am interpreting your question correctly, It sounds like you want to copy
your
Hi, I will change the hard drive of my computer and I was thinking that maybe
it can run if I make partitions in the new hard drive (the same number of
partitions using the same device name), copy all the files contained in the old
hard drive to the new one and finally copy MBR from old hard
Hi
I am currently dual booting between windows and freebsd but I need to
reinstall windows on the other partition. How do I create a freebsd boot
disk so that after windows rewrites my mbr I can still get back to bsd?
Then how would I re-install freebsd's boot manager so I can continue to
dual
Mark wrote:
I am currently dual booting between windows and freebsd but I need to
reinstall windows on the other partition. How do I create a freebsd boot
disk so that after windows rewrites my mbr I can still get back to bsd?
Then how would I re-install freebsd's boot manager so I can continue
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