Thomas Schuerger wrote:
>
> I have Win95 and FreeBSD 4.0-Current on my system.
What version of FreeBSD you originally had in your system?
> Today I had to reinstall Win95, which overwrites the master boot record.
> After that I used fdisk to switch to FreeBSD and used /stand/sysinstall
> to install the FreeBSD selector boot record (I set the FreeBSD and the
> Win95 partition to bootable first).
This /stand/sysinstall is the one on the hard drive, correct? I
assume you never, ever, did cd /usr/src/release/sysinstall; make all
install, correct? Thus, this sysinstall corresponds to the
originally installed FreeBSD version. One needs the latest loader to
boot current -current kernels. I don't recall the exact dates for
the latest loader, but the specific patch that is needed was
committed sometime in march, I think.
> Now the boot selector will be displayed, but I cannot run FreeBSD from
> it anymore. It will just show the boot prompt in the boot loader and
> won't accept to boot from my SCSI drive, where the FreeBSD and Win95
> partition are located (using "0:da(0,a)kernel", which should work).
0:da(0,a)kernel will certainly not work for loader, only boot2. Is
loader being loaded at all? If not, you *definitely* don't have a
latest version installed. In this case, try "0:da(0,a)/boot/loader".
If that proceeds to boot your kernel correctly, do a "disklabel -B
da0", and everything will be back to normal.
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