Hello all ... hope this is the right group for this ....
Last night I had to re-install win98 on my IDE drive (dual-boot) and it happily
clobbered my mbr. No problem. I've had this happen before. I booted up 4.0 from
my CDs and chose the "Fixit" option from the CD-ROM.
I tried:
disklabel -B ad0
and I got this back:
disklabel: bad bpack magic number (label is damaged, or pack is unlabeled)
huh?
So, then I just fell back to method #2 which I've done before in going into the
partition editor within sysinstall, editing NOTHING but hitting 'w' to write
the current information along with the boot sector. This happily worked.
But, why did I get the wierd error above? Previously I had compiled and
installed a new 4.1-STABLE world. Is the disklabel command from 4.0 somehow
incompatible with device entries or something else in 4.1-STABLE?
I also tried downloading the fixit.flp image from 4.1-RC, making that, and
using that as the floppy from within sysinstall. Still no dice in using
disklabel.
Is this error message familiar to anybody?
-Jr
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