>>> Now I had to move it to a new computer in which the bios detects a >>> certian geometry, but then the system wont boot. No matter what I do > I had the same problem back in 4.5. I worked around the problem by > formating the hard drive with a Win98(Oh Boy) recovery floppy then > ... Formatting/fdisking under windows 98 or xp cd's didnt work for me, caused the same trouble.
I've solved the problem and repreat it here for future generations reference (: It appears that the MBR was infact corrupt, causing fdisk to get confused... the following command made the hd appear blank and let it all work again: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad0 count=2000 (Yes i lost my data but the drive now works!) Thanks for ur help (: Fred _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
