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Re: How to reinstall the loader?
On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 12:21:50 -0800 (PST)
Matthew Dillon <dillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> : The worse thing is when I tried to boot my DragonFlyBSD partition
> :afterwards. The DragonFlyBSD loader has been replaced by the FreeBSD one,
> :that tries to boot FreeBSD and not DragonFlyBSD. I don't know why it has
I just had exactly the same problem (and cause) - the good news is
I recovered from it :)
> You can do this by booting the DragonFly CD and installing the loader
> manually. Lets say DFly is on ad0s1, you would do (booting the CD and
> logging in as root):
>
> disklabel -w -B ad0s1
I had to do:
disklabel -w -B ad4s4 auto
> You might possibly also have to recopy the loader program itself:
That wasn't needed but the FreeBSD installer had managed to hose
my DragonFly disklabel too, I had to recreate it by hand with disklabel -e
and a fair amount of arithmetic.
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