Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 18:40:57 +0200 From: Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely12.cicely.de> To: Pierrick Brossin <pbrossin@swissgeeks.com> Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Alpha and labels stuff Message-ID: <20030716164056.GU72706@cicely12.cicely.de> In-Reply-To: <3F14AEDA.40500@swissgeeks.com> References: <1058339743.3f14fb9f3f7ac@www.swissgeeks.com> <20030716082226.GN72706@cicely12.cicely.de> <1058344752.3f150f30b2195@www.swissgeeks.com> <20030716085435.GP72706@cicely12.cicely.de> <3F14AEDA.40500@swissgeeks.com>
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On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 01:48:10AM +0000, Pierrick Brossin wrote: > Bernd Walter wrote: > > >You still have an fdisk table on the disk - just without partitions. > >In fact I don't know what detail sysinstall confuses - if I would then > >it should be easier to fix. > > Well I'm home and I first tried to "fdisk /mdr" the HD so the mbr is > emtpy. Didnt work. With fdsik /mbr you write an mbr - not zeros. Also you have an empty fdisk table - not a cleared block. > Then I decided to use my special (:D) IBM floppy which I use to low > level format HD or Zero fill HD. The low level format didn't work since > it's not an IBM HD I guess but the Zero Filling function worked. > But it's still the same thing, same error in the disklabel editor. >From within FreeBSD: dd if=/dev/zero bs=10240 count=1 of=/dev/adn replace adn with ad0 or whatever your disk is named. > The HD is known to work perfectly. A friend of mine who was using > Windows XP on it gave it to me cause it was too small. What I wrote - sysinstalls stumbles over the contents on that disk. > Any other idea ? You need to get that fdisk table from the disk. You can't expect tools that handle fdisk partitions to wipe them. An empty fdisk table is still an fdisk table. -- B.Walter BWCT http://www.bwct.de ticso@bwct.de info@bwct.de
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