Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 13:26:38 +0200 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@ucb.crimea.ua> To: Ian Moore <imoore@hamcoll.schools.sa.edu.au> Cc: "questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: MBR Lost & Invalid Partition Table message Message-ID: <20000210132638.C68362@relay.ucb.crimea.ua> In-Reply-To: <38A29DB2.678C6E9A@hamcoll.schools.sa.edu.au>; from Ian Moore on Thu, Feb 10, 2000 at 09:44:58PM %2B1030 References: <38A29DB2.678C6E9A@hamcoll.schools.sa.edu.au>
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On Thu, Feb 10, 2000 at 09:44:58PM +1030, Ian Moore wrote: > Help! > I've accidently ovewritten my MBR & when I try to boot, I get 'Invalid > Partition Table'. > Booting from a floppy & running sysinstall, I can see the bsd partition > in fdisk & the various slices in the disk labler, but there are no mount > points shown for the slices (except /swap). > Is there any way I can rescue my disk? > If you *really* had an MBR installed, run `fdisk -B', this will reinitialize the boot code in sector 0 with /boot/mbr (not touching the partition table). -- Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA of the ru@ucb.crimea.ua United Commercial Bank, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.247.647 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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