Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2003 14:39:20 -0500 From: Bob Bomar <bulldog@fxp.org> To: Bsd Neophyte <bsdneophyte@yahoo.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: rebuilding the MBR Message-ID: <20030402193920.GA33265@peitho.fxp.org> In-Reply-To: <20030402161924.4293.qmail@web20103.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20030402161924.4293.qmail@web20103.mail.yahoo.com>
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--+HP7ph2BbKc20aGI Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 08:19:24AM -0800, Bsd Neophyte wrote: > i posted a message earlier, unfortunately, i received no responses. so i > guess i'll ask a different question. >=20 > i've moved my HD from one system to another. >=20 > is it possible to rebuild the MBR? i'm booting from a promise controller. > initially i was booting from the primary controller but now i'm booting > from the second ide contoller now. >=20 > i'm assuming there is a mismatch. i guess need to boot off of the generic > kernel and reconfigure. i have a great deal of information on this drive, > so i would really not like to do a reinstallation. >=20 >=20 If you just moved the drives, and did not edit the /etc/fstab then just boot to single user mode, and edit the /etc/fstab. Remember that when you boot to single user mode, you will not=20 have the partitions mounted, do a mount -a -t ufs to get the=20 / partition to read/write, and then you can mount the other=20 partitions as neccessay, I would recommend mounting /usr and /var so that vi will work, or you can use ed to edit the /etc/fstab. --=20 /----------------------------------------------------------------\ | Bob Bomar bulldog@fxp.org http://www.bomar.us/~bob | |=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D| | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve. http://www.freeBSD.org | \----------------------------------------------------------------/ --+HP7ph2BbKc20aGI Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+izxo9Jm/aTrtdKoRAjHEAJ9BQoezTQ8CPgjAqKhFfMvbnMCcJQCcCPX8 rUu/kL3hOv3JQaDNiQNTwKo= =uSwn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --+HP7ph2BbKc20aGI--
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