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
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>>> 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
> ...
Formattin
> 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 yo
>> 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 sav
> 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
>
