Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 08:43:24 -0400 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> To: Al Goldstein <al@sense-gold-134.oz.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dos partition Message-ID: <20000530084324.A62321@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0005300026020.758-100000@sense-gold-134.oz.net>; from al@sense-gold-134.oz.net on Tue, May 30, 2000 at 12:32:11AM -0700 References: <20000529161339.J58958@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> <Pine.LNX.4.21.0005300026020.758-100000@sense-gold-134.oz.net>
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On Tue, May 30, 2000 at 12:32:11AM -0700, Al Goldstein wrote: > 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. That effectively erases the MBR. That same command pops up on the FreeBSD pages when discussing how to completely nuke the MSDOS setup to do a dangerously dedicated disk, http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/formatting-media/article.html Glad it worked out. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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