From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 16 15:46:34 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA16975 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 16 Sep 1996 15:46:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zeus.xtalwind.net (h-advance.x31.infi.net [206.27.115.54]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA16958 for ; Mon, 16 Sep 1996 15:46:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zeus.xtalwind.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA01140; Mon, 16 Sep 1996 18:42:27 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 16 Sep 1996 18:42:27 -0400 (EDT) From: jack To: Paul Walsh cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Primary partition info erased In-Reply-To: <323D61F1.44BA@nation-net.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 16 Sep 1996, Paul Walsh wrote: > Is there a utility to help restore the primary partition information for > a disk with a fipsed freeBSD partition? > > I'm not really sure how it got lost , but it was while I was using > Win95, a couple of crashes later and I could no longer boot from the > disk. > > BIOS finds it but then that's it. Try booting from a DOS disk and running fdisk /MBR -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jack O'Neill Finger jacko@onyx.xtalwind.net or jack@xtalwind.net http://www.xtalwind.net/~jacko/pubpgp.html #include for my PGP key. PGP Key fingerprint = F6 C4 E6 D4 2F 15 A7 67 FD 09 E9 3C 5F CC EB CD --------------------------------------------------------------------------