On Monday 07 June 2004 11:17, Dan Strick wrote: > > Partition 2 (sysid 14, start 156296385) is bogus. I don't have a clue as > to how it might have been created.
I *guess* it was the W98 installer - if you boot into DOS and invoke setup.exe it's fairly polite, but if you boot from the cdrom, which is what I did, it starts to "prepare your hard disk" without asking... aagh! I'm pretty sure this is when things began to go wrong. > If the beginning/end c/h/s addresses > are to be believed, it overlaps partition 1. I would not dare to format > it. Instead, I would use the "fdisk -u ad1" command to delete it and > hope that it never comes back. If you do this, it would be a good idea > to back up your FreeBSD system first, especially since you are probably > not very familiar with the "fdisk -u" command and might possibly make a > fatal mistake. This is very scary, but thanks for the advice. I had some more advice (not sure if it went to the list or not) to try setting the second partition as unused (sysid=0), so I might try that first to see whether I can avoid risking destroying everything and making my family hate me. Thanks ever so much for your advice, I'll let you know what happens, as soon as I have enough time to give this the attention it requires. Thanks a lot, Ben _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"