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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!vic.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!news.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!gatech!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!zib-berlin.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD killed my drive Date: 10 May 1996 07:47:42 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 26 Message-ID: <4musau$ner@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <jm040795-0905961004030001@mencju.apple.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E jm040795@fhda.edu (Raven) wrote: > I just tried to install FreeBSD on my second HardDrive (2gig) and FreeBSD > killed my first hard drive. Now the geometry is all screwed up. The "geometry" is not screwed... but apparently your primary bootstrap is hosed. (This bug has been fixed since.) You made the mistake to tell it to not write a boot manager onto the first drive, but you should have done this -- only the bootstrap of the first drive is loaded initially, so you need a boot manager there (and on the second drive -- both can pass control back and forth). Since nobody was really trying to install a boot manager only onto a second drive (it doesn't make much sense), this bug has been undetected for a long time. However, you could enter the orignal values of your primary MBR say with pfdisk, and should be done. Nothing else should have been touched (like the file systems that live on your first disk). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)