From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 26 12:57:44 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 EC65337B401 for ; Sat, 26 Oct 2002 12:57:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tomts6-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts6.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.26]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBF4443E42 for ; Sat, 26 Oct 2002 12:57:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pippo@bellnet.ca) Received: from pippo.bellnet.ca ([65.94.99.132]) by tomts6-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.04.19 201-253-122-122-119-20020516) with ESMTP id <20021026195735.ZYNN11311.tomts6-srv.bellnexxia.net@pippo.bellnet.ca>; Sat, 26 Oct 2002 15:57:35 -0400 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20021026152050.00aa7268@pop51.bellnet.ca> X-Sender: lesp3999@pop51.bellnet.ca X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2002 15:25:39 -0400 To: Jerry McAllister From: pippo@bellnet.ca Subject: Re: 2 active partitions Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <200210261842.g9QIgS609679@clunix.cl.msu.edu> References: <5.1.0.14.2.20021026105612.00a82a30@pop51.bellnet.ca> 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 At 02:42 PM 10/26/2002 -0400, you wrote: > > > > 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. It did. And I am sure that I even went back to /stand/sysinstall to make sure that only the second slice is active. Strangely, fdisk (in /stand/sysinstall) did not show any partition as active. %-) Now that I seem to understand fdisk a little better, I did see that in my current exercise 3 partitions were marked as actkive. I returned to /stand/sysinstall (Fdisk) and marked slice 2 active and rechecked after - this time it was ok. Strange. At any rate, I found Partition ;Magic had a partition table editor on one of my emergency disks and that fixed the dual active situation. Again, thanks for your input. PJ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message