From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 26 11:42:34 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 5F02237B401 for ; Sat, 26 Oct 2002 11:42:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (clunix.cl.msu.edu [35.9.2.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC5EA43E42 for ; Sat, 26 Oct 2002 11:42:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) id g9QIgS609679; Sat, 26 Oct 2002 14:42:28 -0400 (EDT) From: Jerry McAllister Message-Id: <200210261842.g9QIgS609679@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Subject: Re: 2 active partitions To: pippo@bellnet.ca Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2002 14:42:28 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20021026105612.00a82a30@pop51.bellnet.ca> from "pippo@bellnet.ca" at Oct 26, 2002 11:03:49 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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. Was that the FreeBSD fdisk or the Microsloth one? I have never seen that happen with the FreeBSD version. > 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? Probably. If you can get booted to something FreeBSD you can run fdisk on it and choose the active slice. By the way, if slice 1 has only data, then when you run disklabel on it don't tell it to put in the boot records (boot1 and boot2 - fdisk puts boot0 in the disks main boot sector). ////jerry > Please help. > PJ > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message