From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 2 17:51:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from backup.af.speednet.com.au (af.speednet.com.au [202.135.188.244]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 548EB37B400 for ; Sat, 2 Dec 2000 17:51:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from backup.af.speednet.com.au (backup.af.speednet.com.au [172.22.2.4]) by backup.af.speednet.com.au (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id eB31ovF40908; Sun, 3 Dec 2000 12:50:58 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from andyf@speednet.com.au) Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2000 12:50:57 +1100 (EST) From: Andy Farkas X-Sender: andyf@backup.af.speednet.com.au To: Peter Lai Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: how to restore broken bootsector In-Reply-To: <9F36E367710D474E9806AA393FE737FB019EED@resnetnt.resnet.uconn.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 1 Dec 2000, Peter Lai wrote: > while i was doing some upgrading, i think i accidently broke my MBR. I can > boot using a fixit disk, and mount everything nicely, but when I try to boot > regularly, the BIOS says "incorrect partition table" or something. > > how would i rewrite that from either fixit or sysinstall? disklabel -w -B ad0 auto man 8 disklabel -- :{ andyf@speednet.com.au Andy Farkas System Administrator Speednet Communications http://www.speednet.com.au/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message