Re: my boot was damaged.

["Francisco Valladolid" <ficovh%gmail.com@localhost>]

i'm using standard boot manager from NetBSD !

On Feb 5, 2008 11:13 AM, David Laight <david%l8s.co.uk@localhost> wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 08:44:59AM +0430, Francisco Valladolid wrote:
> > Hi folks
> >
> > I'm using NetBSD -current (4.99.52) in my laptop, but recently the boot
> > manager was damaged by other external program to NetBSD.
> > Now, I test with a live system mounting / and /usr  copying the boot
> file
> > into / and later doing a installboot to  /dev/rwd0a.
> >
> > At this time, I don't have results.
> >
> > Some can suggest a best idea. ?
>
> What were you using as the 'boot manager'?
> How far does the boot sequence get, and what error message is shown?
>
> Maybe you don't have appropriate boot code in sector 0 of the disk.
> Under netbsd 'fdisk wd0' will display the mbr partition table and
> (fdisk -u wd0) will let you edit it - and probably decode to write
> in the netbsd mbr boot code.
>
>        David
>
> --
> David Laight: david%l8s.co.uk@localhost
>



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