From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 8 18: 7:54 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.domainbank.net (idomains-nt1.idomains.net [207.18.15.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E618814E02 for ; Thu, 8 Jul 1999 18:07:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd@idomains.net) Received: from gandalf ([24.229.46.7]) by mail.domainbank.net (Post.Office MTA v3.1.2 release (PO205-101c) ID# 1-666L) with SMTP id AAA305; Thu, 8 Jul 1999 21:03:22 -0400 Message-ID: <002601bec9a7$71ffe630$1e01a8c0@altronics.com> From: "Adam Breaux" To: "Miltiadis Margaronis" Cc: References: Subject: Re: I have a little problem Date: Thu, 8 Jul 1999 21:07:41 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG http://www.ittrainer.com/Downloads/delpart.exe This program will without a doubt blow away the partition, so you can fdisk etc...it's meant for killing NT partitions but should work for ya. ----- Original Message ----- From: Miltiadis Margaronis To: Sent: Friday, July 09, 1999 8:39 PM Subject: I have a little problem > Hi, > I have a problem with my disks. > Here's the story: > I recently installed (via FTP) FreeBSD 3.2 on my second IDE hard disk. > Unfortunately, i made a mistake when i was making partitions, and as a > result, my primary HD (all of it) is marked as a active extended DOS > partition. It has the boot manager needed to load FreeBSD. > Since then, when i try to even access the disk, the kernel panics, i get a > "general protection fault" and the system reboots. This is caused by > commands like sysinstall, fdisk, boot0cfg, mount, dd etc. > I tried to boot from a windows diskette in order to format it, > but that didn't work. I tried changing the sequence of disks (i.e. the > FreeBSD disk as Primary master and the second as primary slave, the > FreeBSD disk as primary master and the second as secondary slave... I > tried another dozen combinations, including no HDs at all etc) but it > didn't work. > I tried changing the boot sequence, but it also didn't work. > I tried booting from a PartitionMagic floppy, no luck either. > I tried to boot from a bootable windows CD, but nothing happened. > The only way to load something other than FreeBSD is not to have the disk > connected to my system, but then i can't format it... > Does anyone have a solution how can I format my disk? > I have included my loader.conf and rc.conf scripts as well as my kernel > configuration file. > > Thanks > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message