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From: Julian Elischer <julian@ref.tfs.com>
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Subject: Re: fdisk problem - any suggestions
To: jhs@vector.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de (Julian Howard Stacey)
Date: Sat, 27 May 1995 14:42:15 -0700 (PDT)
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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
>