From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 1 21:42:16 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id VAA22360 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 1 Dec 1995 21:42:16 -0800 Received: from ref.tfs.com (ref.tfs.com [140.145.254.251]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id VAA22293 for ; Fri, 1 Dec 1995 21:40:52 -0800 Received: (from julian@localhost) by ref.tfs.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) id VAA00778; Fri, 1 Dec 1995 21:40:12 -0800 From: Julian Elischer Message-Id: <199512020540.VAA00778@ref.tfs.com> Subject: Re: MBR To: steve@microdot.com (Steve Spiller) Date: Fri, 1 Dec 1995 21:40:12 -0800 (PST) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Steve Spiller" at Dec 1, 95 07:22:59 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 696 Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > what does 'fdisk' say about your disk? sounds like the 'partition table part of the MBR is still ok .. you may do a fdisk -iu /dev/.... and then you should type in all the figures again (there aren't that many of them) > > Well, I won't go into the details of how I got where I am, but here's my > problem. When I try to boot from my HD I get "Invalid Partition Table". > If I boot from the bootdisk and enter hd(a,0)/kernel at the Boot: prompt, > my system boots up normally with no problems. My question is : Is there > a way to write out the MBR ( or whatever is wrong ) to my HD without > reinstaling the whole system? > > > -Steve > steve@microdot.com > >