Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 16:13:39 -0400 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> To: Al Goldstein <al@sense-gold-134.oz.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dos partition Message-ID: <20000529161339.J58958@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0005291057230.10667-100000@sense-gold-134.oz.net>; from al@sense-gold-134.oz.net on Mon, May 29, 2000 at 11:09:29AM -0700 References: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0005291057230.10667-100000@sense-gold-134.oz.net>
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On Mon, May 29, 2000 at 11:09:29AM -0700, Al Goldstein wrote: > Help please. > > My dos partition is not accessible by dos (C: not available from A:) > or mountable by freebsd. OK. > The partition table looks like this > DISK GEOMETRY 13328 cyl/15 heads/63 sectors=12594960 sectors > > Offset Size End Name PType desc Subtype Flags > > 0 63 62 - 6 unused 0 > 63 61362 61424 wd0s1 2 fat 6 > 61425 6142445 6204869 wdos2 3 freebsd 165 C> > ............................................ > > I'm not able to delete and create dos to start at 0 That first partition is the MSDOS "Master Boot Record (MBR)." You cannot use it in another parition if you are slicing the disk. Was there a questions somewhere in here? What do you want to do? It sounds like you need to put a filesystem on the first slice. If you had data on it you wanted to get at... Might be time to go to your backups. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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