From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 29 17:14:42 2000 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 917AE37BAFA for ; Mon, 29 May 2000 17:14:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA60747; Mon, 29 May 2000 20:14:33 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 20:14:33 -0400 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: Al Goldstein Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dos partition Message-ID: <20000529201433.K58958@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Reply-To: cjclark@home.com References: <20000529161339.J58958@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from al@sense-gold-134.oz.net on Mon, May 29, 2000 at 03:11:32PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, May 29, 2000 at 03:11:32PM -0700, Al Goldstein wrote: > On Mon, 29 May 2000, Crist J. Clark wrote: > > What I want to do is 1) dos format the dos partition. Something must be > screwed up in the MBR because the partition is not available. If I boot > up a floppy it prints invalid media type reading drive C. If I run fdisk > on the floppy it prints garbage and hangs. > 2) I want to mount the partition in Freebsd. > Mount fails, says wrong superblock, fsck says magic number wrong > can't read disklabel. > > I'm not worried about losing anything in the dos partition, but I don't > want to damage the freebsd partition. > > Is there a program around that can be run from a dos floppy to fix the > MBR? Have you tried fdisk(8) in FreeBSD to fix it? You can then use newfs_msdos(8) to put down the filesystem. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message