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Subject: Corrupt Boot Sector
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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