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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!hunter.premier.net!europa.clark.net!nntprelay.mathworks.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: 'no bootable partition' message Date: 3 Jul 1997 17:57:23 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 20 Message-ID: <5pgp63$e9o@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <5pboji$iqu$1@ccnet2.ccnet.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:43907 gbernard@hotmail.com (Greg Bernard) wrote: > I set up LILO to boot BSD, but yet when I try to > boot the disk I get the message 'no bootable partition'. Yet if I put > the BSD boot diskette in, I can boot just fine. Any ideas how I can > make the disk bootable again. I tried disklabel -B wd0 to no avail... disklabel -B is unrelated, it's for the BSD bootstrap. You're caught by LILO (or the MBR on the disk) not willing to boot your BSD in the first place. Run fdisk on this disk (from any operating system you want), and mark the BSD slice bootable. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)