From owner-freebsd-bugs Tue Jun 4 19:43:59 1996 Return-Path: owner-bugs Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id TAA09664 for bugs-outgoing; Tue, 4 Jun 1996 19:43:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.usask.ca (mail.usask.ca [128.233.3.34]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA09650 for ; Tue, 4 Jun 1996 19:43:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from janus1-9.usask.ca by mail.usask.ca (PMDF V5.0-5 #Tue, 4 Jun 1996 20:43 -0600 (CST) Date: Tue, 04 Jun 1996 20:42:23 -0700 From: Luke Wadel Subject: FreeBSD fdisk problem To: bugs@freebsd.org Message-id: <31B5021F.31B4@mail.usask.ca> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (Win16; I) Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-URL: http://www.freebsd.com/support.html Sender: owner-bugs@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I tried installing FreeBSD 2.1 and later a snapshot of 2.2 on a Compaq Presario 425, from CD-ROMs. I chose the novice installation, as I am new to FreeBSD. After fdisking a primary partition, (hda4, as I recall), upon reboot, loading the first MSDOS primary partition, a RAMDISK suddenly would not work. Afterwards, when I ran CFDISK from a Linux install, I was informed that there were errors in the partitioning, and it refused to even run. These problems went away when DOS' FDISK deleted the FreeBSD partition, and perhaps also some logical drives which were corrupted, but they came back when retrying the FreeBSD installation.