From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Apr 3 21:48:25 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id VAA28896 for hardware-outgoing; Wed, 3 Apr 1996 21:48:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from palmer.demon.co.uk (palmer.demon.co.uk [158.152.50.150]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA28890 for ; Wed, 3 Apr 1996 21:48:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by palmer.demon.co.uk (sendmail/PALMER-1) with SMTP id GAA00503 ; Thu, 4 Apr 1996 06:47:37 +0100 (BST) To: Nate Williams cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Gary Palmer" Subject: Re: Fdisk questions? In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 03 Apr 1996 19:00:54 PDT." <199604040200.TAA15535@rocky.sri.MT.net> Date: Thu, 04 Apr 1996 06:47:37 +0100 Message-ID: <501.828596857@palmer.demon.co.uk> Sender: owner-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Nate Williams wrote in message ID <199604040200.TAA15535@rocky.sri.MT.net>: > I've had this happen twice to me in the last week, and both machines > were laptops so it may have something to do with that, but this problem > is driving me crazy. I saw something similar whilst I was out at W.C. ``Bob'' got himself a new machine with an IDE hard drive, and ``fips'' refused to reduce the size of the DOS partition 'cos it's checksum failed when checking the MBR it read in. Seems it was somehow pulling the MBR from the WRONG place on the disk. This machine ONLY had Win95 on it. Anyone see a link? Does Win95 somehow mess up something to do with the MBR? Gary