Hi,
Just a wild guess...
Boot off the RHL 6.2 CD, and start the install. Use fdisk to write a brand
new partition table (I do not remember the exact option, but "m" should
help u out)
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Harveer Singh
(BTW, I _do not_ expect this to work!!)
At 11:53 AM 9/22/00 +0530, Biju wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>I've got an ancient 204MB HDD which I experment with. Some weeks ago I
>installed FreeBSD 4.0 on it, had some (unrelated) problems and then forgot
>about it.
>
>Yesterday, I decided to reuse it. I connected it up as hda on my main
>machine. I found that I could not repartition it with either the Linux
>fdisk or MS-DOS fdisk -- both died with errors. I was finally able to
>repartition it with OS/2 Warp fdisk (!). I ran the the OS/2 install and it
>ran without error until it tried to boot up the os it just installed. On
>boot the bios error message 'boot error' was displayed.
>
>As far as I can determine, the MBR is corrupt. I tried to run (DOS) fdisk
>/MBR, but that died with the error 'The Master boot record was _not_
>updated'. I could not install OS/2 Boot Manger with OS/2 fdisk.
>
>Oddly enough, if I boot up with DOS or OS/2 boot disk, I am able to access
>the drive and view files, etc. I suspect FreeBSD with it's customised
>partition scheme may have caused the problem.
>
>Anybody have any ideas? I'm fresh out of ideas here and all suggestions
>welcome.
>
>regards,
>
>Biju
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Cheers !!!
Harveer Singh
(NXN - Not eXactly a Newbie)
ICQ#:86100081
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