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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!sunic!trane.uninett.no!due.uninett.no!neptun.cmr.no!tl From: tl@neptun.cmr.no (Tom Lislegaard) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Fix for "bad sector table corrupted" (FreeBSD)? Date: 28 Aug 1994 13:09:49 GMT Organization: Christian Michelsen Research a/s Lines: 22 Distribution: world Message-ID: <33q2at$4mm@due.uninett.no> NNTP-Posting-Host: neptun.cmr.no I'm setting up a secondary IDE disk and keep running into problems with disklabel. System is FreeBSD 1.1.5. At boot the kernel says wd1: cannot find label (bad sector table corrupted) I can install the disklabel and read it back (with 'disklabel -r wd1'), and also create and mount filesystems, but the label disappears at next reboot. Can you tell me how I might be able to remedy this ? Also I should say that the disk is partitioned in two with dos fdisk, and has a bootmanager installed (pfdisk). If I change this disk to be primary, I can select the first partition (dos) and boot it normally. My suspicion is that I'm getting the disk geometry screwed up, anyway it would be most helpful if someone could explain to me the general layout of the disk, i.e locations of secondary bootstraps, disklabel, and bad sector table. -tom -- Tom Lislegaard, System Manager, Chr. Michelsen Research a/s, Bergen, Norway