Help: After installing linux, I can no longer boot my freebsd...

From: Mark Jayson Alvarez (jay2xra_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 06/08/04

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    Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2004 04:01:00 -0700 (PDT)
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

    Hi,

      I have a 20gb harddisk with 3 primary partitions:

    1st: DOS
    2nd: Freebsd
    3rd: reserved for linux
    and an extended partition(which contains my windows
    files)

    Before installing linux.. I can see this at freebsd
    boot manager menu

    F1:DOS
    F3:Freebsd

    After installing linux and lilo..
    F1:DOS
    F2:Freebsd(F3 before)
    F4:linux

    I have successfully edited the boot.ini of windows and
    be able to boot into it, same as with linux but.. when
    I press F2 to boot into my freebsd.. it stops in the
    middle of device detection process and it shows

    Manual root filesystem specification
    <fstype>:<device>

    mountroot>

    I tried typing ufs:/dev/ad0s1a but it still won't
    boot..

    What I did was to delete entire the linux installation
    and the partition aloted to it

    so now I can only see this at boot time:

    F1:DOS
    F2:Freebsd

    Any idea what happened?
    Do you know what should I type in the
    mountroot> prompt?

            
                    
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