repair a FreeBSD install

[Manolis Kiagias]

Chad Perrin wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 11:19:39PM +0300, Manolis Kiagias wrote:
>   
>> You can use the grub bootloader to load freebsd (assuming that nothing
>> is damaged in the freebsd slice itself, and I believe it is intact in
>> your case)
>> It's been some time since I've done this myself (I am no longer dual
>> booting FreeBSD on this machine), but I'll try to be as accurate as
>> possible.
>> Start your system, when it gets to the grub loader press "c" to get to
>> the grub command line.
>> Do you know what your freebsd slice is? Even if you don't, you can get
>> this info from fdisk -l from debian. Or you could try searching in the
>> command line.
>> Type something like:
>>
>> root (hd0,2,a)
>>     
>
> GRUB doesn't recognize the partition type for some reason.  There's
> pretty clearly something wrong with the partition, I think.
>
>   
Is it possible that somehow the partition type was changed?
Try as root an fdisk -l from your debian installation.
Your freebsd should show up as partition type a5 (BSD/386)
Otherwise you could use fdisk to fix this.