From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 11 09:51:22 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA19530 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 11 Feb 1999 09:51:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from footech.com (srv01.bigwheel.net [208.197.88.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA19518 for ; Thu, 11 Feb 1999 09:51:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from doug@footech.com) Received: (from doug@localhost) by footech.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA14997; Thu, 11 Feb 1999 09:51:14 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 09:51:14 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199902111751.JAA14997@footech.com> To: marko@uk.radan.com From: Doug Jolley Subject: Re: Corrupted partition Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >I'd be careful of using ``/s'' (I take it you're talking about >``format /s C:''?). As well as copying the system files it makes the >disk/partition bootable and so will overwrite your MBR (and possibly >alter the partition table). How do you boot FreeBSD? If you use >Booteasy or similar it may not work afterwards. Yes. That's exactly the concern I was talking about (although I didn't say it nearly so eloquently :)). Actually, what I have is 2 physical hard drives, a primary and a secondary. They pretty much are mirror images of one another and they are both bootable. The idea is that in the event of disaster affecting the primary drive, I can always just boot the secondary drive. Both drives contain a small dos partition. I'm not near the box to take a look right now; but, it's my recollection that I have things set up so that I can boot either FreeBSD or DOS on either drive (i.e., 4 boot choices). It turns out that the corrputed DOS partition is on the secondary drive. So, now that I've better explained the situation, what would you suggest in terms of getting that DOS partition repaired? I don't care at all about the data on it. Once it's repaired, I'll just copy the contents of the DOS partition on the primary drive to it. As you point out, what I don't want to do is mess up the way things boot. Any thoughts? Thanks for the input. >HTH. ??? ... doug _____________________________________________________________________ Doug Jolley mailto://doug@footech.com http://www.footech.com Don't bogart that file, my friend. Net it over to me. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message