Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2004 18:42:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com> To: Vaidas Damosevicius <vd@vmunix.lt> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Strange boot block/loader problems with SATA on -BETA1,2 and -CURRENT Message-ID: <20040908184107.E81868@carver.gumbysoft.com> In-Reply-To: <20040831154524.DA92B481F7@mail.if.lt> References: <20040831154524.DA92B481F7@mail.if.lt>
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On Tue, 31 Aug 2004, Vaidas Damosevicius wrote: > I have very strange problem on 3 different i386 boxes. All of them > is running -CURRENT and powered by SATA. After the reboot on 3 different > boxes I see the same error: Missing Operating System. I've tried to > restore boot block using LiveCD, but after the reboot problem comes > back to me. Same situation with 5.3-BETA1 and BETA2. Is the MBR actually corrupted, or is the active bit missing (or worse, duplicated) on your partition(s)? There was a bug where sysinstall was marking 2 partitions as active. Try booting with DOS FDISK and seeing what the state of the partition table is. Are you using boot0? -- Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve dwhite@gumbysoft.com | www.FreeBSD.org
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