From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 10 3:28:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from relay.ucb.crimea.ua (UCB-Async4-CRISCO.CRIS.NET [212.110.129.130]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16C31440F for ; Thu, 10 Feb 2000 03:27:53 -0800 (PST) Received: (from ru@localhost) by relay.ucb.crimea.ua (8.9.3/8.9.3/UCB) id NAA77040; Thu, 10 Feb 2000 13:26:38 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from ru) Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 13:26:38 +0200 From: Ruslan Ermilov To: Ian Moore Cc: "questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: MBR Lost & Invalid Partition Table message Message-ID: <20000210132638.C68362@relay.ucb.crimea.ua> Mail-Followup-To: Ian Moore , "questions@FreeBSD.ORG" References: <38A29DB2.678C6E9A@hamcoll.schools.sa.edu.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: <38A29DB2.678C6E9A@hamcoll.schools.sa.edu.au>; from Ian Moore on Thu, Feb 10, 2000 at 09:44:58PM +1030 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Feb 10, 2000 at 09:44:58PM +1030, Ian Moore wrote: > Help! > I've accidently ovewritten my MBR & when I try to boot, I get 'Invalid > Partition Table'. > Booting from a floppy & running sysinstall, I can see the bsd partition > in fdisk & the various slices in the disk labler, but there are no mount > points shown for the slices (except /swap). > Is there any way I can rescue my disk? > If you *really* had an MBR installed, run `fdisk -B', this will reinitialize the boot code in sector 0 with /boot/mbr (not touching the partition table). -- Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA of the ru@ucb.crimea.ua United Commercial Bank, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.247.647 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message