Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2015 12:39:29 -0700 (MST) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: John McDonnell <mcdonnjd@pcam.org> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: POS system trashing hard drives during install Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.20.1512221237260.94396@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <A09B69E6B9C91963.1-0f9df8ab-2681-4d43-8ca6-2b8a2979e123@mail.outlook.com> References: <BLUPR07MB321C9B805585AB5A6456D0ABAE00@BLUPR07MB321.namprd07.prod.outlook.com> <alpine.BSF.2.20.1512172208100.4409@wonkity.com>, <BLUPR07MB3216D5F435ACE02480752CBBAE40@BLUPR07MB321.namprd07.prod.outlook.com> <A09B69E6B9C91963.1-0f9df8ab-2681-4d43-8ca6-2b8a2979e123@mail.outlook.com>
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On Mon, 21 Dec 2015, John McDonnell wrote: > Apologizing in advance if the formatting of this gets all out of > whack. Don't have a handy way of doing a copy and paste from up here > where I have an old system with PATA connectors. So I'm typing by hand > on my phone. Though, thinking about it now, maybe I should have done > this from the POS since it will boot the XP disk. Maybe it will show > something different. Anyway, here goes: > > root@:~ # gpart show ada0 > => 63 78165297 ada0 MBR (37G) > 63 40965687 1 ntfs [active] (20G) > 40965750 37190475 2 ebr (18G) > 78156225 9135 - free - (4.5M) > > => 0 37190475 ada0s2 EBR (18G) > 0 37190475 1 ntfs (18G) > > That looks like a pretty normal layout to me. Guessing that there > might be something special inside the MBR itself or something in the > "empty" sectors. Is there some other command than "gpart show" that > would be helpful? Look at what partitions are present in the second slice: gpart show ada0s2
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