From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 26 8: 3:53 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF55437B401 for ; Sat, 26 Oct 2002 08:03:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tomts15-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts15.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.3]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD43343E4A for ; Sat, 26 Oct 2002 08:03:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pippo@bellnet.ca) Received: from pippo.bellnet.ca ([65.94.99.132]) by tomts15-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.04.19 201-253-122-122-119-20020516) with ESMTP id <20021026150351.UNEI13155.tomts15-srv.bellnexxia.net@pippo.bellnet.ca> for ; Sat, 26 Oct 2002 11:03:51 -0400 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20021026105612.00a82a30@pop51.bellnet.ca> X-Sender: lesp3999@pop51.bellnet.ca X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2002 11:03:49 -0400 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: pippo@bellnet.ca Subject: 2 active partitions Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Somehow, fdisk has created 2 active slices on my disk, making it unbootable. Slice 1 only has data & config files (/usr/local) while slice 2 has the boot partition. How can I deactivate slice 1 wihout deleting it? Since fdisk screwed it up, I hesitate to try it. Should I use the install floppies to boot and then do post-install config and then use Fdisk? Please help. PJ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message