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Date:      Wed, 01 Dec 1999 06:54:05 +0000
From:      Tim Liddelow <tim@esec.com.au>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Help in fixing MBR / loader
Message-ID:  <3844C60D.AFCC8B25@esec.com.au>

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I recently purchased a new 8GB disk to replace the existing 2GB disk on
my FreeBSD system.

After labelling and partitioning,  everything seemed okay and I moved
the data across.
However, sysinstall has placed a boot manager on the disk as it thought
this was a second
bootable disk.  This isn't what I want; I just want the previous
behavior (ie. NOT text that
says: F1 BSD ... etc.)   Also, when I hit F1, i thent get FreeBSD
Boot...etc and then if I continue
with the default (/kernel) I get:

Disk error 0x1 (lba=0x_some_thing)

which, according to boot(8) is "Invalid argument".   No what does that
actually mean ?
The disk is brand new, and is set in the BIOS to be LBA.  I have also
tried "NORMAL" mode
but no difference.

However, if I then use "/kernel.old" it boots.   The funny thing is
/kernel.old and /kernel are
IDENTICAL.


How do I fix this so /kernel works again and I don't get the "F1 ...
BSD" prompt(s) ?  I want
to be careful and not hose my disk by corrupting the partition
table...is there a utility to
write the MBR etc that isn't sysinstall ?

Cheers
Tim.




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