Fun with 'fdisk -B -b /boot/boot0 ad0'
Ryan T. Dean
rtdean at cytagen.com
Wed Jul 23 14:27:09 PDT 2003
Greetings-
I've got a laptop which I dualboot between -CURRENT and W2k. I recently
had to reinstall W2k, and in the process it eliminated my MBR. I can
successfully boot into FBSD by using a boot floppy and telling it to boot
the kernel from the hard drive, but this is, well, kludgy. Checking the
handbook, I found the entry on how to reinstall the MBR. So, I did a
'fdisk -B -b /boot/boot0 ad0'. The FreeBSD boot program came back,
however, when I attempt to load FreeBSD, it merely beeps at me. It will,
however, boot into W2k. I've tried supping, rebuilding the boot blocks (cd
src/sys/boot; make install; fdisk -B -b /boot/boot0 ad0; disklabel -B
ad0s2) with no success. I was hoping that someone might have an idea, as
I've exhausted all of mine for the time being.
Cheers,
Ryan T. Dean
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