Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 08:35:08 -0700 From: garys@opusnet.com (Gary W. Swearingen) To: Milscvaer <millueradfa@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Failed installation of FreeBSD 5.4 Message-ID: <xbslxbxlg3.lxb@mail.opusnet.com> In-Reply-To: <20050815033021.55766.qmail@web54509.mail.yahoo.com> (Milscvaer's message of "Sun, 14 Aug 2005 20:30:21 -0700 (PDT)") References: <20050815033021.55766.qmail@web54509.mail.yahoo.com>
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Milscvaer <millueradfa@yahoo.com> writes: > that. There must be something wrong with the boot > records that fdisk is not correcting. > I know friends who have had unuseable boot records as > well and have to boot from floppies, Its not really a > big inconvenience. Spend some time with the boot, boot0cfg, fdisk, bsdlabel, manpages and the handbook. Note that fdisk can install either a DOS-type MBR (and set active part) or a FreeBSD-type MBR (use F1...). Also note that fdisk does not install the boot records that are probably not working for you: the ones at the start of your primary partition. These are installed by "bsdlabel" with -B option.
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