Date: Tue, 7 May 1996 17:13:15 +1000 (EST) From: Administrator <root@flopsy.hobart.TASed.EDU.AU> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Corrupt Boot Sector Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960507164552.1111A-100000@flopsy.hobart.TASed.EDU.AU>
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Hi all, I am trying to install FreeBSD 2.1.0-R on an osbourne 486DX4100 with 32 megs RAM and 840meg IDE harddrive. Unfortuantel the disk has Windoze95 installed and I'm not allowed to trash it :-( I used fips to chop off a 255meg partition for BSD. After a bit of mucking around with IRG settings etc BSD refuses to create slices. It says "Unable to swap to /dev/wd0s2b: Device not configured". Then in the debug it says newfs: /dev/rwd0a: 'a' partition is unavailable. The only IRQ settings I changed was setting ed0 to IRQ 10 I/O 300 (by booting with the -c option). I tried to run fips again...just to see if that would help (well I thought it might be worth a try) and when I type fips -t it says "Checking Rootsector .... Error: Partition Table Corrupt - end: partition 1" When we ran fips initially we asked for a backup and I assume its the file A:\rootboot.000. Assuming we need to restore the partition table from the disk how do we go about it...I couldn't find any instructions for fips. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Andrew
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