Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 10:25:05 -0500 (CDT) From: "Doug Poland" <doug@polands.org> To: "Jerry McAllister" <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hosed my MBR? Message-ID: <64211.209.103.215.99.1144769105.squirrel@email.polands.org> In-Reply-To: <200604111408.k3BE8CF2019510@clunix.cl.msu.edu> References: <20060410235508.GA742@polands.org> <200604111408.k3BE8CF2019510@clunix.cl.msu.edu>
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On Tue, April 11, 2006 09:08, Jerry McAllister wrote: >> >> I'm in a bit of a mess here. I've got an Asus P4C800-E Deluxe >> motherboard with two on-board SATA RAID controllers, an Intel >> MatrixRAID (ICH5R) 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. > > I have done that for people who have hosed their MBR on machines with > Ghost - even their XP only, no FreeBSD, systems, using the FreeBSD > fixit, I ran fdisk and replaced the MBR with the FreeBSD MBR and it > worked just fine. > Hi Jerry, I think the root of my confusion here is the fact that I have two RAID controllers and can boot off either controller. Does that mean I have two MBR's, one for each controller? If that's the case and I boot off a CD-ROM, which MBR am I fixing? -- Regards, Doug
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