Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 20:14:33 -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: <20000529201433.K58958@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0005291449120.10970-100000@sense-gold-134.oz.net>; from al@sense-gold-134.oz.net on Mon, May 29, 2000 at 03:11:32PM -0700 References: <20000529161339.J58958@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> <Pine.LNX.4.21.0005291449120.10970-100000@sense-gold-134.oz.net>
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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
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