Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 20:52:57 -0600 From: Nathan Ahlstrom <nrahlstr@winternet.com> To: Sentinel <sentinelx@home.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FIPS Error Message-ID: <19990110205257.E343@winternet.com> In-Reply-To: <3699608B.E0A745A3@home.com>; from Sentinel on Sun, Jan 10, 1999 at 07:23:07PM -0700 References: <3699608B.E0A745A3@home.com>
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Sentinel <sentinelx@home.com> 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
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