Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2006 12:18:55 -0500 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: <20060414171855.GG32858@polands.org> In-Reply-To: <200604141649.k3EGnom8002934@clunix.cl.msu.edu> References: <20060414161327.GD32858@polands.org> <200604141649.k3EGnom8002934@clunix.cl.msu.edu>
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On Fri, Apr 14, 2006 at 12:49:50PM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: > > > > I can still boot FreeBSD off my FastTrack controller (ar0), that's > > where I'm writing this email from. I can see both the Intel RAID > > device (ar1), and mount the data from NTFS (ar1s1), and newly > > created UFS-2 (ar1s2). I even did a dd of the MBR from ar0 and ar1 > > and compared the two. Of course, I don't know what I'm looking at > > so that didn't go too far :) > > This has lasted long enough that I am forgetting parts, such as it is > the MS piece that doesn't boot, not the FreeBSD. > > But, if you get a FreeBSD boot loader, then it is not the MBR that is > hosed, but the boot sector itself. Probably bsdlabel wrote on it and > not fdisk. That could be a little more difficult, since those boot > sectors can be quite different and are not OS agnostic. > That makes sense. > In this case, your best bet may be to mount the MS file system from > the FreeBSD side and copy it somewhere for safety and then try to > rebuild the MS system "from scratch". Note, I said 'may' be. If > someone was to raise an argument, I would fall over easily. > A WinXP re-install was always my last resort. I was hoping for something quicker. Data recovery isn't an issue as all my important data is kept on a file server. Thanks for your help. -- Regards, Doug
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