Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2018 23:48:04 +0530 From: Manish Jain <jude.obscure@yandex.com> To: Robert Fitzpatrick <robert@webtent.org>, FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Restoring bootcode Message-ID: <ac24f0a3-59d6-6b14-0342-e935c29bf5fe@yandex.com> In-Reply-To: <5AE5F327.3050702@webtent.org> References: <5AE5F327.3050702@webtent.org>
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On 04/29/18 22:00, Robert Fitzpatrick via freebsd-questions wrote: > Something happens to the bootcode since an upgrade a while back and I've > been starting this 10.4-RELEASE server at the loader OK prompt using > 'set currdev=disk0s1a' and then boot. Here is the server system... > > root@dev:~ # gpart show > => 63 41942977 ada0 MBR (20G) > 63 41929587 1 freebsd [active] (20G) > 41929650 13390 - free - (6.5M) > > => 0 41929587 ada0s1 BSD (20G) > 0 1024000 1 freebsd-ufs (500M) > 1024000 524288 2 freebsd-swap (256M) > 1548288 20480000 4 freebsd-ufs (9.8G) > 22028288 19901299 5 freebsd-ufs (9.5G) > > I've tried the following to install the boot code, but still ending up > at the loader prompt... > > root@dev:~ # gpart bootcode -b /boot/mbr ada0 > bootcode written to ada0 > > I also tried with ada0s1 with same result. Clearly I don't understand > how to get this done, can someone help? > Hi Robert, /boot/mbr needs you to set ada0s1 as the active partition. The easier solution in your case perhaps is: gpart bootcode -b /boot/boot0 ada0 gpart bootcode -b /boot/boot ada0s1 -- Tx and Regards, Manish Jain
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