Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2007 10:46:04 -0500 From: "E. J. Cerejo" <ecerejo@optonline.net> To: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu> Cc: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Boot Menu Damaged Message-ID: <000401c84bc4$40734af0$0301a8c0@homedcfc9a526e> References: <000701c84b74$dfc15ca0$0301a8c0@homedcfc9a526e> <20071231145006.GA99984@gizmo.acns.msu.edu>
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Jerry McAllister" <jerrymc@msu.edu> To: "E. J. Cerejo" <ecerejo@optonline.net> Cc: <FreeBSD-questions@freebsd.org> Sent: Monday, December 31, 2007 9:50 AM Subject: Re: Boot Menu Damaged > 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 Do you run it from the instalation CD using fixit or run from the mountroot prompt on the computer. It seems to me I can't can any commands from this prompt.
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