Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 17:46:37 +0200 From: Roberto Nunnari <roberto.nunnari@supsi.ch> To: Evan Dower <evantd@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: help! I broke the partition table of the drive with thebootable partition! Message-ID: <4069965D.6070301@supsi.ch> In-Reply-To: <BAY8-F68emPBpEfvGaw00007e79@hotmail.com> References: <BAY8-F68emPBpEfvGaw00007e79@hotmail.com>
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Hi Evan.
Evan Dower wrote:
> You'll need to run fdisk (or the visual version of fdisk in sysinstall
> that you can get to through Index->fdisk) to change the values back to
> what they were. In order for the partition to be marked bootable, it
> needs the flag 0x80 (active). In sysinstall's fdisk interface you can
> get the effect by pushing S (for Set bootable).
> I hope this helps you out,
Thank you for your reply. I fixed it using fdisk and bsdlabel.
I didn't want to run sysinstall because at present I don't have
a consistent system at hand.. in fact after upgrading from
5.2-p1 to 5.2.1-p3 the system had kernel panic late in
the boot process, during network configuration.. so I did
a restore.. but no full.. just /boot, /bin, /sbin, /lib,
/libexec and /etc.. so I don't feel confident in using
funny tools until I get the system back to a consistent state.
Best regards.
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Scuola Universitaria Professionale della Svizzera Italiana
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