Date: Sat, 22 May 2004 20:28:33 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: Doug Poland <doug@polands.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Invalid partition table after sysinstall modifications Message-ID: <20040522200257.D37289@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <40AFDA14.8030401@polands.org> References: <40AFDA14.8030401@polands.org>
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On Sat, 22 May 2004, Doug Poland wrote: > I've got a 4.9-STABLE system that was dual-booted between FBSD and > Win2K. I had no further need for the windows slice so I used sysinstall > to delete the NTFS slice, write it as type 165, newfs'd it, mounted it, > and wrote a bunch of data to the new ufs slice. So far so good... > About 8 hours after this procedure the system hung, I rebooted and > received the message, > > "Invalid partition table" > > I was able to boot the system with a FreeSBIE live bootable CDROM and > fsck all the ufs slices. The data on all slices appear to be good, but > I cannot figure out how to get this box to boot again. I've google'd > and read the appropriate handbook sections. Hmm. It looks like that error comes from the plain mbr code (/boot/mbr), not the boot-selector loader (/boot/boot0). The plain mbr only wants one partition (slice) to be active. See what fdisk has to say about your partitions. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA
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