Re: my boot was damaged.

["Chavdar Ivanov" <ci4ic4%gmail.com@localhost>]

On 05/02/2008, Francisco Valladolid <ficovh%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
> 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.

Any chance that your NetBSD partition is not active?

> >
> >        David
> >
> > --
> > David Laight: david%l8s.co.uk@localhost
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Francisco Valladolid H.
> -- http://bsdguy.net - Perl, [Open-Net] BSD fan. --
>


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