From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 10 18:55:42 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA20217 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 10 Jan 1999 18:55:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from icicle.winternet.com (icicle.winternet.com [198.174.169.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA20207 for ; Sun, 10 Jan 1999 18:55:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nrahlstr@winternet.com) Received: (from adm@localhost) by icicle.winternet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA01924; Sun, 10 Jan 1999 20:54:54 -0600 (CST) Received: from ppp-67-193.dialup.winternet.com(204.246.67.193) by icicle.winternet.com via smap (V2.0) id xma001899; Sun, 10 Jan 99 20:54:41 -0600 Received: (from nrahlstr@localhost) by portage.winternet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA00995; Sun, 10 Jan 1999 20:52:57 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from nrahlstr) Message-ID: <19990110205257.E343@winternet.com> Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 20:52:57 -0600 From: Nathan Ahlstrom To: Sentinel , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FIPS Error References: <3699608B.E0A745A3@home.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <3699608B.E0A745A3@home.com>; from Sentinel on Sun, Jan 10, 1999 at 07:23:07PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Sentinel wrote: > I am attempting to split my existing partition in order to install > FreeBSD, however when I run FIPS it gives the error: > -- > Checking Rootsector... > Error: Partition table Corrupt - end: partition 1 > File ERRORS.TXT not found - no verbose messages available > Bye! > -- > I have the 2.2.8 CD-ROM set from cdrom.com. The hard drive currently is > only a single partition in FAT32 with Windows98 on it. I ran the > partition information utility from PartitionMagic 4.0 and it reports no > partition errors. I tried using PM4 to split my existing partition and > it got almost 60% through the process and told me "Error 3 executing > batch." and gave up itself. > > Any idea what my problem could be? I am stumped. PM4 info util reports > no partition errors, but FIPS says the Partition Table is corrupt.... > Help! I don't believe that fips works on a Fat32 partition. -- Nathan Ahlstrom nrahlstr@winternet.com http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message