From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 17 9: 0: 0 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mgw1.MEIway.com (mgw1.meiway.com [212.73.210.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6C2E37B684 for ; Sat, 17 Feb 2001 08:59:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from sv.Go2France.com (sv.meiway.com [212.73.210.79]) by mgw1.MEIway.com (Postfix Relay Hub) with ESMTP id D55256A901 for ; Sat, 17 Feb 2001 17:59:56 +0100 (CET) Message-Id: <5.0.0.25.0.20010217175434.04e223b0@mail.Go2France.com> X-Sender: lconrad%Go2France.com@mail.Go2France.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0 Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 17:57:35 +0100 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Len Conrad Subject: Re: can't boot 4.2R In-Reply-To: <5.0.0.25.0.20010217161803.022dc850@mail.Go2France.com> References: <018201c098f4$087fa880$6100000a@vladsempire.net> <5.0.0.25.0.20010217131639.01ac6030@mail.Go2France.com> <5.0.0.25.0.20010217134955.01b5c870@mail.Go2France.com> <5.0.0.25.0.20010217144545.026c6b80@mail.Go2France.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >it may have Compaq "system's utilities partition" on it. There's a >few cylinders I can't grab with fbsd's fdisk. ok, I'm pretty sure this is the pb. In the same machine, I installed NT on FAT and when I booted it, it gave a little, temporary menu of "F1 DOS", before continuing to the remainder of NT installation. Back in fbsd parition editor, there are 6 cylinders at the beginning of the disk I cannot grab for fbsd, always a type "6". Anybody know how to remove this compaq utils partition? Len http://BIND8NT.MEIway.com : Binary for ISC BIND 8.2.3 for NT4 & W2K http://IMGate.MEIway.com : Build free, hi-perf, anti-spam mail gateways To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message