On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 04:08:31AM -0800, Noah wrote:
> I just did an ls of the drive on da1. can I assume that the contents of this
> drive did not get trashed?
I should think so. The sort of disk trashing you would experience
with those low level commands would tend to leave the drive
unmount
>
> Looks OK to me -- you have got backups of anything important on that
> disk haven't you? This sort of operation has a high risk of trashing
> the drive contents if you don't get things quite right.
Thank you so much Matthew,
I just did an ls of the drive on da1. can I assume that the cont
On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 12:11:24PM -0800, Noah wrote:
> okay I think I see what fdisk is wanting. I wanted to run it by you before i
> did anything:
>
> here is the prompts I filles out. some prompts do have anything appear there
> i just hit return for the default value. Do I need to change t
>
> To deal with a standard MBR, you have to use fdisk(8). Try:
>
> # fdisk -B -b /boot/mbr -i da1
>
> This will walk you through the current settings interactively,
> letting you generate a slice table, change the active slice and
> rewrite the boot code.
>
> Of course, just to confuse
>
> To deal with a standard MBR, you have to use fdisk(8). Try:
>
> # fdisk -B -b /boot/mbr -i da1
>
> This will walk you through the current settings interactively,
> letting you generate a slice table, change the active slice and
> rewrite the boot code.
>
> Of course, just to confuse
On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 06:39:42AM -0800, Noah wrote:
> I am using FreeBSD 4.8 Stable
>
> # boot0cfg -B -b /boot/mbr -s 1 da1
> boot0cfg: /boot/mbr: unknown or incompatible boot code
> # ls -l /boot/mbr
> -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 512 Aug 24 14:26 /boot/mbr
>
>
> so I am not clear what the iss
On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 10:05:04 +, Matthew Seaman wrote
> On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 02:32:20PM -0800, Noah wrote:
> >
> > > i) Make the 2nd disk an identical copy to the 1st one. In this case
> > > should the 1st drive go AWOL, you would have to open the case and
> > > either remove the first driv
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 02:32:20PM -0800, Noah wrote:
>
> > i) Make the 2nd disk an identical copy to the 1st one. In this case
> > should the 1st drive go AWOL, you would have to open the case and
> > either remove the first drive or modify the jumpering on the disks to
> > swap their order on t
> i) Make the 2nd disk an identical copy to the 1st one. In this case
> should the 1st drive go AWOL, you would have to open the case and
> either remove the first drive or modify the jumpering on the disks to
> swap their order on the bus. You will need to mark the FreeBSD slice
> bootable in t
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 09:20:14AM -0800, Noah wrote:
> I will consider it. in the mean time can somebody explain to me how to make
> the 2nd drive bootable. I have seen many different ways to do this. can you
> direct me to the most optimal. I want to place a boot section that has no
> menu a
On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 11:00:38 -0500, Jason Stewart wrote
> Noah wrote:
> > FreeBSD 4.8-stable
> >
> >
> > I have about three different sources for making a drive bootable. well I have
> > a machine with two drives and the second drive is an exact backup of the
> > first. but I need to make the
Noah wrote:
FreeBSD 4.8-stable
I have about three different sources for making a drive bootable. well I have
a machine with two drives and the second drive is an exact backup of the
first. but I need to make the 2nd drive bootable as well since this drive
will be plopped in if the first drive g
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