Date: Tue, 29 Aug 1995 20:47:08 -0700 (PDT) From: Jake Hamby <jehamby@lightside.com> To: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Does fdisk work? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.950829204320.846B-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <199508300222.TAA05612@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
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On Tue, 29 Aug 1995, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
> >
> > Does fdisk work for others? I have not been able to get it to
> > write anything on the disk. I run it with the -i flag and answer
> > all the questions in the affirmative, yet upon running it again
> > (or disklabel) the disk still has no valid partion table (at least
> > not what I specified). This on both a 2.0.5R and a 950726-SNAP
> > level system.
> >
> > All I can figure is that either fdisk is terminally broken or I am
> > missing something very fundamental about its use. :-((
>
> fdisk -u, the -u option is required if you wish to write to the
> disk, -i write a master boot record, but no partition table.
>
I just set up FreeBSD a few days ago (after a few years using Linux) and
overall it's excellent! But fdisk/disklabel are REALLY difficult to
figure out. What FreeBSD needs is an menu-based fdisk more like Linux's
(or the sysinstall program).
At any rate, the one major problem I had setting up FreeBSD was that I
installed it on my second IDE hard drive and it refused to boot (well
actually it booted into LILO which is what I was running before I
installed FreeBSD). I ended up having to download the DOS program
BootEasy in order to boot, but now BootEasy won't boot my DOS partition
(also on the second IDE drive). And I never did figure out how to
reinstall the EasyBoot MBR from within FreeBSD! Considering my
configuration, what would be the EXACT command to install a master boot
record on my first and second IDE hard drive from within FreeBSD?
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Student, Cal Poly University, Pomona | System Administrator, JPL
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