--- "Ivan \"Rambius\" Ivanov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello, > > Thank you for your response. > > On 10/1/06, backyard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > > > --- "Ivan \"Rambius\" Ivanov" > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > I installed FreeBSD 6.1 on one machine with grub > > > boot loader. In the > > > beginning there was only one entry in grub - > namely > > > FreeBSD. Later, I > > > had to install Windows XP on the machine and of > > > course, it destroyed > > > grub and now I cannot boot FreeBSD. > > > > > > I tried with booting from the FreeBSD > installation > > > disk choosing Fixit > > > option, but I could not use successfully > > > grub-install command. > > > > > > My question is: how can I restore the FreeBSD > grub > > > loader? Could you > > > please give me any hints or advance. Thank you > very > > > much in advance. > > > > > > Regards > > > Ivan > > > > > > -- > > > > I would suggest you make a grub booting floppy > disk > > then you can escape to command mode once the disk > > loades and install grub with > > > > root (hd0,0,a) # or wherever it is > > setup (hd0 # again wherever it is > > > > assuming you have already placed the grub > bootfiles on > > your hard drive and configured menu.lst you should > be > > all set. I have only encountered one computer this > > method failed. > In fact, I am using a laptop that does not have a > floppy drive, so I > could not use booting floppy disks. > I use a USB floppy drive to boot my laptop and install grub. Although I haven't been able to use fdformat with the floppy drive so I use one of my desktops to prapare the disks. > > > > you could alternatively flip the kernel tunable > that > > allows raw writes to the boot sectors of the > disks. I > > don't recall what it is but I think the grub docs > talk > > about it in the man or info pages. > > > > I'm supprised XP messed it up, 2000 seemed to > respect > > existing bootloaders... > I fixed the problem in the following way: I have > another FreeBSD > laptop, so I copied its boot sector using the > command > > # dd if=/dev/ad0s1a of=/mnt/bootsect.bsd bs=512 > count=1 > I've used that method myself when grub hadn't been updated to support UFS2. I had completely forgotten about it though. > Then I used bootsect.bsd to to boot in FreeBSD via > the NT loader (I > found this link useful: > http://www.unixguide.net/freebsd/faq/09.10.shtml). > After I boot to > FreeBSD I installed the grub loader. to each their own; the beauty of Unix... glad you got it working. > > Regards > Ivan > > -- > -brian _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
