From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 7 12:12:35 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 1F9EE16A4CE for ; Mon, 7 Jun 2004 12:12:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mta04-svc.ntlworld.com (mta04-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.44]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A7FB43D55 for ; Mon, 7 Jun 2004 12:12:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ben@spooty.net) Received: from m26-mp1.cvx3-b.pop.dial.ntli.net ([80.1.84.26]) by mta04-svc.ntlworld.comESMTP <20040607121142.YWSN24958.mta04-svc.ntlworld.com@m26-mp1.cvx3-b.pop.dial.ntli.net>; Mon, 7 Jun 2004 13:11:42 +0100 From: Ben Paley To: Dan Strick Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2004 13:10:48 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.1 References: <200406071017.i57AHNpW000791@mist.nodomain> In-Reply-To: <200406071017.i57AHNpW000791@mist.nodomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200406071310.48366.ben@spooty.net> cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dangerous file system / disk problem 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: Mon, 07 Jun 2004 12:12:35 -0000 On Monday 07 June 2004 11:17, Dan Strick wrote: > > Partition 2 (sysid 14, start 156296385) is bogus. I don't have a clue as > to how it might have been created. I *guess* it was the W98 installer - if you boot into DOS and invoke setup.exe it's fairly polite, but if you boot from the cdrom, which is what I did, it starts to "prepare your hard disk" without asking... aagh! I'm pretty sure this is when things began to go wrong. > If the beginning/end c/h/s addresses > are to be believed, it overlaps partition 1. I would not dare to format > it. Instead, I would use the "fdisk -u ad1" command to delete it and > hope that it never comes back. If you do this, it would be a good idea > to back up your FreeBSD system first, especially since you are probably > not very familiar with the "fdisk -u" command and might possibly make a > fatal mistake. This is very scary, but thanks for the advice. I had some more advice (not sure if it went to the list or not) to try setting the second partition as unused (sysid=0), so I might try that first to see whether I can avoid risking destroying everything and making my family hate me. Thanks ever so much for your advice, I'll let you know what happens, as soon as I have enough time to give this the attention it requires. Thanks a lot, Ben