From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 18 19: 3: 0 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 664F31513E for ; Fri, 18 Jun 1999 19:02:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) id WAA14995 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Fri, 18 Jun 1999 22:04:15 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from cjc) From: "Crist J. Clark" Message-Id: <199906190204.WAA14995@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Subject: Broken FAT FS During Install To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD Questions) Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 22:04:14 -0400 (EDT) Reply-To: cjclark@home.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I recently installed 3.2 on a machine that had been running only Win95. The machine is basically a test client for some networking experiments. Since many/most clients on an operational system will be Win-boxes, I figured I'd preserve a working Win95 partition to run tests from (I usually nuke whole disks when I get my paws on an old machine at the office). However, my Win95/DOS partition looks broken in someway. The problem is that it will not boot. I get a 'Invalid system disk' (or the like) error when I try to boot off of DOS (F1 from BootEasy). I can mount the DOS partition just fine when FreeBSD is running. I tossed in a MS-DOS bootable floppy, and I could read C: when I booted off of it. The fdisk output from the BSD OS is, ******* Working on device /dev/rwd0 ******* parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=621 heads=64 sectors/track=63 (4032 blks/cyl) parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: cylinders=621 heads=64 sectors/track=63 (4032 blks/cyl) Media sector size is 512 Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1 Information from DOS bootblock is: The data for partition 1 is: sysid 6,(Primary 'big' DOS (> 32MB)) start 63, size 830529 (405 Meg), flag 0 beg: cyl 0/ sector 1/ head 1; end: cyl 205/ sector 63/ head 63 The data for partition 2 is: sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) start 830592, size 1673280 (817 Meg), flag 80 (active) beg: cyl 206/ sector 1/ head 0; end: cyl 620/ sector 63/ head 63 The data for partition 3 is: The data for partition 4 is: When I booted the DOS floppy and ran FDISK.EXE from there, I got the same information. I used the PRESIZER.EXE off of a FreeBSD CDROM (a home-built 3.1-RELEASE CD) to shrink down that DOS partition from originally taking the whole disk. Any ideas what may be wrong, how to find the problem, or how to fix it? I'd like to have a Win95 client to inflict evil experiments on. Thanks for any help. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message