From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 2 8:15:22 2002 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 00B5C37B400 for ; Fri, 2 Aug 2002 08:15:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (clunix.cl.msu.edu [35.9.2.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5880C43E3B for ; Fri, 2 Aug 2002 08:15:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) id g72FFHK15880; Fri, 2 Aug 2002 11:15:17 -0400 (EDT) From: Jerry McAllister Message-Id: <200208021515.g72FFHK15880@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Subject: Re: Can FreeBSD make a hard drie unbootable by other OS's? To: jud@myrealbox.com (Jud) Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 11:15:17 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD questions mailing list), cjcarri@earthlink.net (Cherie & John Carri) In-Reply-To: from "Jud" at Aug 01, 2002 09:32:42 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > >I'm not sure what is going on, but I guess either the drive's partition > >table and or MBR are truly messed up, or I have a bad drive on my > hands > >- maybe it died while I was transferring it from one PC to the other, > >despite the anti-static pad and wrist-strap I used. > > > >I'm going to get another hard drive to get this system up, as I need to > >get it working fairly quickly. Meantime, does anyone think my old 4.3 > >Gig drive is still salvageable, or is it time to use it to help fill up > >the local landfill? > > > >Thanks, > >-John Carri > > Do I recall correctly that your boot order in BIOS was floppy, then CD- > ROM, then hard drive? If that's correct, does setting the hard drive to > the second option, before CD-ROM, make any difference? > > Jud > You may be able to do a bios level format on the drive and start all over. Boot to bios and look around for the format. After that (you might need to do the dd again and) you will need to fdisk and disklabel. I doubt the boot order is causing the trouble. But, you can play with it. ////jerry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message