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Date:      Mon, 31 Dec 2007 09:50:06 -0500
From:      Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu>
To:        "E. J. Cerejo" <ecerejo@optonline.net>
Cc:        FreeBSD-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Boot Menu Damaged
Message-ID:  <20071231145006.GA99984@gizmo.acns.msu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <000701c84b74$dfc15ca0$0301a8c0@homedcfc9a526e>
References:  <000701c84b74$dfc15ca0$0301a8c0@homedcfc9a526e>

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On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 01:17:51AM -0500, E. J. Cerejo wrote:

> I'm running FreeBSD 6 stable and I lost my boot menu after reinstalling xp 
> and tried to fix it by booting with instalation cd and run "fdisk -B -b 
> /boot/boot0 /dev/ad0" it restored it but when I boot I get the mountroot> 
> prompt, it fails to mount ad0s2a, b, c, d.  Is it possible to fix this or 
> do I have to reinstall freebsd? 

It may be that you got the slices no longer marked as bootable.
Try using fdisk(8) or boot0cfg(8) to re-enable booting on those slices.

////jerry

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