Unable to boot FreeBSD (dual-boot)

[Gautam Gopalakrishnan]

On Sat, 26 Jun 2004 20:11:45 +0300, Dancho Penev <dpenev at mnet.bg> wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 12:25:24AM +1000, Gautam Gopalakrishnan wrote:
> >I have a dual boot with Windows 2000 (ad0s1 is windows, ad0s2 is
> >FreeBSD 5.2.1). I trashed a working dual-boot somehow. Now the
> >problem is, I get the boot menu listing both Windows and FreeBSD,
> >but only Windows boots (with F1). Pressing F2 for FreeBSD just
> >gives a beep.I booted from the fixit cd and ran the commands seen
> >in the handbook:
> >
> ># fdisk -B -b /hd/boot/boot0 /dev/ad0
> ># disklabel -B -b /hd/boot/boot0 /dev/ad0s2
> 
> For label use /boot/boot file, /boot/boot0 is for mbr.
> 
> >
> >/hd is the temporary directory I created to mount /dev/ad0s2a,
> >so I guess my slice is still ok.

Does not help!  I even tried "disklabel -B /dev/ad0s2" because a
diff between /hd/boot/boot and /boot/boot on the fixit yielded
nothing.

# disklabel /dev/ad0s2
lists the various partitions properly.

I do have an MBR because I get a boot menu. Just can't get the
MBR to talk to boot1 and boot2...

Gautam