Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2002 14:42:28 -0400 (EDT) From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: pippo@bellnet.ca Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2 active partitions Message-ID: <200210261842.g9QIgS609679@clunix.cl.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20021026105612.00a82a30@pop51.bellnet.ca> from "pippo@bellnet.ca" at Oct 26, 2002 11:03:49 AM
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> > Somehow, fdisk has created 2 active slices on my disk, making it > unbootable. Was that the FreeBSD fdisk or the Microsloth one? I have never seen that happen with the FreeBSD version. > Slice 1 only has data & config files (/usr/local) while slice 2 > has the boot partition. > How can I deactivate slice 1 wihout deleting it? > Since fdisk screwed it up, I hesitate to try it. > Should I use the install floppies to boot and then do post-install config > and then use Fdisk? Probably. If you can get booted to something FreeBSD you can run fdisk on it and choose the active slice. By the way, if slice 1 has only data, then when you run disklabel on it don't tell it to put in the boot records (boot1 and boot2 - fdisk puts boot0 in the disks main boot sector). ////jerry > Please help. > PJ > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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