From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 22 19:29:53 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 108BF16A4CE for ; Sat, 22 May 2004 19:29:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wonkity.com (wonkity.com [65.173.111.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C59043D45 for ; Sat, 22 May 2004 19:29:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from wonkity.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wonkity.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i4N2SYHq037436; Sat, 22 May 2004 20:28:34 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from localhost (wblock@localhost) by wonkity.com (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) with ESMTP id i4N2SXR6037433; Sat, 22 May 2004 20:28:34 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Date: Sat, 22 May 2004 20:28:33 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block To: Doug Poland In-Reply-To: <40AFDA14.8030401@polands.org> Message-ID: <20040522200257.D37289@wonkity.com> References: <40AFDA14.8030401@polands.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Invalid partition table after sysinstall modifications X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 23 May 2004 02:29:53 -0000 On Sat, 22 May 2004, Doug Poland wrote: > I've got a 4.9-STABLE system that was dual-booted between FBSD and > Win2K. I had no further need for the windows slice so I used sysinstall > to delete the NTFS slice, write it as type 165, newfs'd it, mounted it, > and wrote a bunch of data to the new ufs slice. So far so good... > About 8 hours after this procedure the system hung, I rebooted and > received the message, > > "Invalid partition table" > > I was able to boot the system with a FreeSBIE live bootable CDROM and > fsck all the ufs slices. The data on all slices appear to be good, but > I cannot figure out how to get this box to boot again. I've google'd > and read the appropriate handbook sections. Hmm. It looks like that error comes from the plain mbr code (/boot/mbr), not the boot-selector loader (/boot/boot0). The plain mbr only wants one partition (slice) to be active. See what fdisk has to say about your partitions. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA