Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 19:38:02 -0400 From: Scott W <wegster@mindcore.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Help- re-install of 5.1 release leaves bootloader unworkable Message-ID: <3F8F2BDA.2000903@mindcore.net>
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Hey all- hopefully someone can point me in the right direction here. After problems with cvsuped 5.1 current, I did a re-install of 5.1 RELEASE on a system with two IDE drives. The install appears to go well, but on reboot, I'm faced with what appears to be 3(!!) options for booting BSD, none of which work. The system is a dual celeron 366MHz with 768M RAM. HPT66 IDE controller which has 2 IDE drives plugged into it. These show up as ad4 and ad5 during the install. The boot menu shows as: F1 freebsd F2 freebsd F3 Disk 1 none of which work. If I type: unload boot 3(ad1,d) I get an error 1 lba 0 Other selections result in: no /boot/loader I have been able to load the fixit disk, and mount the correct partitions, but the only references I've seen to any help with respect to re-installing the boot loader are 'installbootloader' which doesn't appear to be on this install. So...how do I recover this install and remove the 'bad' entries in the loader, and point it at the correct disk? Disk layout is as follows: ad3s1a /tmp 2G ad3s1b swap 2G ad4s1d /boot 128M ad4s1a / 1G ad4s1e /var 2G ad4s2d /usr 10G ad4s1b /home 5G Scott
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