Frederick Bowes wrote:
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
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
...
I have a problem which i cannot seem to fix no matter what I do! I have a
120GB disk, which had windows XP/FreeBSD partions working fine on one
computer. 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
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 now, i cant get the system to boot off
the disk, i have even tried eraseing it with fdisk (freebsd
and dos versions). Does anyone know how I can save it?
I
I am guessing freebsd works out the correct drive geometry, but the bios
is not! Interestingly though, when set to LBA, the head/cyl/sector count
is equal to what the freebsd fdisk detects it to be.
This is exactly what I was experiencing. Thought I'd throw that out there,
best of luck to you.
