Re: Restoring FreeBSD grub loader
- From: backyard <backyard1454-bsd@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2006 14:41:49 -0700 (PDT)
--- "Ivan \"Rambius\" Ivanov"
<rambiusparkisanius@xxxxxxxxx> 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.
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...
-brian
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