Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 00:32:11 -0700 (PDT) From: Al Goldstein <al@sense-gold-134.oz.net> To: cjclark@home.com Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dos partition Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0005300026020.758-100000@sense-gold-134.oz.net> In-Reply-To: <20000529161339.J58958@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
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On Mon, 29 May 2000, Crist J. Clark wrote: Hi Crist, I found the answer to my problem in the Linux man page of fdisk. The first 512 bytes of the dos partition must contain all zeros. So: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/wd0s1 bs=512 count=1 fixed the dos partition. The newfs_msdos formatted it OK. Thanks and Cheers! Al > On Mon, May 29, 2000 at 11:09:29AM -0700, Al Goldstein wrote: > > Help please. > > > > My dos partition is not accessible by dos (C: not available from A:) > > or mountable by freebsd. > > OK. > > > The partition table looks like this > > DISK GEOMETRY 13328 cyl/15 heads/63 sectors=12594960 sectors > > > > Offset Size End Name PType desc Subtype Flags > > > > 0 63 62 - 6 unused 0 > > 63 61362 61424 wd0s1 2 fat 6 > > 61425 6142445 6204869 wdos2 3 freebsd 165 C> > > ............................................ > > > > I'm not able to delete and create dos to start at 0 > > That first partition is the MSDOS "Master Boot Record (MBR)." You > cannot use it in another parition if you are slicing the disk. > > Was there a questions somewhere in here? What do you want to do? It > sounds like you need to put a filesystem on the first slice. If you > had data on it you wanted to get at... Might be time to go to your > backups. > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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