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Date:      Fri, 1 Dec 1995 21:40:12 -0800 (PST)
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@ref.tfs.com>
To:        steve@microdot.com (Steve Spiller)
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: MBR
Message-ID:  <199512020540.VAA00778@ref.tfs.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.951201192102.158A-100000@ledzeppelin.microdot.com> from "Steve Spiller" at Dec 1, 95 07:22:59 pm

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> 
what does 'fdisk'
say about your disk?
sounds like the 'partition table part of the MBR is still ok ..

you may do a fdisk -iu /dev/....

and then you should type in all the figures again
(there aren't that many of them)



> 
> Well, I won't go into the details of how I got where I am, but here's my 
> problem.  When I try to boot from my HD I get "Invalid Partition Table".  
> If I boot from the bootdisk and enter hd(a,0)/kernel at the Boot: prompt, 
> my system boots up normally with no problems.  My question is : Is there 
> a way to write out the MBR ( or whatever is wrong ) to my HD without 
> reinstaling the whole system?
> 
> 
> 						-Steve
> 						 steve@microdot.com
> 
> 




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