From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 15 13:53:24 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp13.bellglobal.com (smtp13.bellglobal.com [204.101.251.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D96115169 for ; Fri, 15 Oct 1999 13:53:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from a.genkin@utoronto.ca) Received: from main.wgaf.net (HSE-TOR-ppp22942.sympatico.ca [209.226.71.232]) by smtp13.bellglobal.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA05530 for ; Fri, 15 Oct 1999 16:55:15 -0400 (EDT) Received: from antipode by main.wgaf.net with local (Exim 2.05 #1 (Debian)) id 11cFSD-0003v8-00; Fri, 15 Oct 1999 18:04:01 -0400 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: FBSD and Linux are bad neighbours X-Home-Page: http://wgaf.dyndns.org Organization: Wgaf From: Arcady Genkin Date: 15 Oct 1999 18:04:01 -0400 Message-ID: <87u2nsxovi.fsf@main.wgaf.net> Lines: 36 User-Agent: Gnus/5.070097 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.97) XEmacs/21.1 (Biscayne) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi all: Before I installed FreeBSD on my second computer, I had there a linux installation. Somehow, installing FBSD somehow damaged linux partitions, which resided inside an extended partition. Today I attempted recovering linux installation. I swear that I only touched the damaged partitions to install files into there. I *did not* install lilo or any other loader (set it up to load from a floppy). Well, as you might have guessed, FBSD won't boot anymore. :^( Please point me where to look for answers, why this happened? How do I repair FBSD's loader? My setup is as follows: /dev/hda1 FreeBSD (a5) /dev/hda2 Linux native (83) /dev/hda3 Linux swap (82) /dev/hda4 Extended (5) /dev/hda5 Linux native (bootable) (83) /dev/hda6 Linux native (83) /dev/hda7 Linux native (83) Sorry, I haven't learned how FBSD names its partitions. The drive is the first IDE drive on a primary controller. I think that wd0s1a is the FreeBSD's / partition. Any help highly appreciated! -- Arcady Genkin http://wgaf.dyndns.org "'What good is my pity? Is not the pity the cross upon which he who loves man is nailed?..'" (F. Nietzsche) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message