Date: Sat, 27 May 1995 14:42:15 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer <julian@ref.tfs.com> To: jhs@vector.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de (Julian Howard Stacey) Cc: rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: fdisk problem - any suggestions Message-ID: <199505272142.OAA06205@ref.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: <199505262117.XAA10023@vector.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de> from "Julian Howard Stacey" at May 26, 95 11:17:52 pm
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> > -------- > > > BTW I notice if disklabel is run, it zaps the fdisk display: > namely the DOS slice 0 dissapears, & the Slice 3 FreeBSD becomes > start 0 size 50000 THAT'S your problem.... you're defining 'c' to be the whole disk instead of just the BSD part? This is the fdisk MBR that is a part of the disklable.. (in case you want the whole disk to be FreeBSD..) someohow you are puting the disklable in block0 instead of at the start of your BSD partition.. (where it goes is defined by partition 'c' I seem to remember) > > It's only the boot sector(s) that are missing, as I can boot off the SNAP > floppy, & then continue with sd(0,a)/kernel > (which is how I'm booting the system that's doing this mail). > > Further suggestions welcome please :-) > ( I suspect I'll have to resort to `dd' (anyone remember the incantation)) > > Julian S >
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