Re: recovering ufs after fat games
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 21:34:23 -0400 From: Daemon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm having the same problem ... followed the instructions at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/install.html#WIN95-DAMAGED-BOOT-MANAGER and did Fixit# fdisk -B -b /boot/boot0 ad0 from the 4.6 CD live filesystem. Now on reboot I get F3 = DOS F4 = FREEBSD If I choose F4 I get nothing but a beep. If I choose F3 it boots into windows. Any suggestions? Is this a big disk? If the FreeBSD partition starts at a cylinder 1023, this is what you will see. If this is the case, try: boot0cfg -o packet -B ad0 (or whatever your boot disk is). This is a sticky problem as older systems will not work with the packet option and CHS boot access on large disks will fail if the boot partition is too far into the disk. Unless your hardware is quite old, packet should work fine. (Of course, you may want added options like -m, but that's up to you.) R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +1 510 486-8634 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: recovering ufs after fat games
On Wed, 18 Sep 2002 14:13:15 -0700 Kevin Oberman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's on a Dell Deminsion 4300 ... barely a year old and has a Maxtor 7200 40Gig hard drive. I also tried going to the ../tool directory on the Install cd and doing bootisnt.exe boot.bin in the DOS prompt but that didn't work either. Looking at the partitions in Partition Magic, I can see both partitions Active but can't boot into FreeBSD. Also, if I try to boot into FreeBSD using the PQBoot program is shows what was F3=DOS as F3=??? upon reboot. I have to load the Partition Magic restore floppies in order to make the DOS partition Active again so I can at least boot into Windows. Is this a big disk? If the FreeBSD partition starts at a cylinder 1023, this is what you will see. If this is the case, try: boot0cfg -o packet -B ad0 (or whatever your boot disk is). This is a sticky problem as older systems will not work with the packet option and CHS boot access on large disks will fail if the boot partition is too far into the disk. Unless your hardware is quite old, packet should work fine. (Of course, you may want added options like -m, but that's up to you.) R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Phone: +1 510 486-8634 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message -- The FoxSurfer Group Admin FoxSurfer.Com FreeBSD 4.6-STABLE To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: recovering ufs after fat games
On Sep 18 at 14:13, Kevin Oberman spoke: From: Daemon [EMAIL PROTECTED] If I choose F4 I get nothing but a beep. If I choose F3 it boots into windows. Any suggestions? Is this a big disk? If the FreeBSD partition starts at a cylinder 1023, this is what you will see. If this is the case, try: boot0cfg -o packet -B ad0 (or whatever your boot disk is). Probably `-o packet' is what also would had helped in my case. My FreeBSD partition also is located beyond the 1023rd cylinder. But I had overlooked the packet option in the manpage. Thanks. -Hanspeter To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: recovering ufs after fat games
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 18:11:53 -0400 From: Daemon [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 18 Sep 2002 14:13:15 -0700 Kevin Oberman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's on a Dell Deminsion 4300 ... barely a year old and has a Maxtor 7200 40Gig hard drive. I also tried going to the ../tool directory on the Install cd and doing bootisnt.exe boot.bin in the DOS prompt but that didn't work either. Looking at the partitions in Partition Magic, I can see both partitions Active but can't boot into FreeBSD. Also, if I try to boot into FreeBSD using the PQBoot program is shows what was F3=DOS as F3=??? upon reboot. I have to load the Partition Magic restore floppies in order to make the DOS partition Active again so I can at least boot into Windows. This system will definitely support packet bootstrap. Did you try: boot0cfg -B -o packet ad0 This should do the trick for you. The other option is to use Partition Magic to move the partitions around so that the FreeBSD partition is at the front of the disk. Last thought: is the drive configured in BIOS as LBA? I don't think the Dell BIOS even has an option to make the disk CHS, but I don't have a Dell handy to check it out at the moment. Any disk over 2 GB should be accesses as LBA. R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +1 510 486-8634 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: recovering ufs after fat games
I'm having the same problem ... followed the instructions at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/install.html#WIN95-DAMAGED-BOOT-MANAGER and did Fixit# fdisk -B -b /boot/boot0 ad0 from the 4.6 CD live filesystem. Now on reboot I get F3 = DOS F4 = FREEBSD If I choose F4 I get nothing but a beep. If I choose F3 it boots into windows. Any suggestions? Respectfully, Mark On Tue, 17 Sep 2002 19:19:41 +0200 Hanspeter Roth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sep 16 at 11:22, Lowell Gilbert spoke: There are several listed, but i was thinking of: Fixit# fdisk -B -b /boot/boot0 bootdevice substituting bootdevice for your real boot device such as ad0 (first IDE disk), ad4 (first IDE disk on auxiliary controller), da0 (first SCSI disk), etc. in particular. I'll use this one next time. Section 3, Installation, includes the question Windows 95/98 killed my boot manager! How do I get it back? Thanks for the hint. -Hanspeter To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message -- The FoxSurfer Group Admin FoxSurfer.Com FreeBSD 4.6-STABLE To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
