On Wed, 24 Mar 2010, Gene wrote: > Greetings - (not a draft notice) > > First thanks to those who responded to my previous question. > > Next... > > I was attempting to install 8.0 amd64 w/ZFS. I used instructions from the wiki > and when I had trouble, I decided to beat a strategic retreat and just do a > "vanilla" install. Problem was that either fdisk didn't recognize the mbr > after all the 'gpart create'-ing or simply couldn't start newfs. (Something > about not being able to find an initial inode.) I figured 'gpart destroy ad0' > might fix things but no such luck. fdisk -I ad0 also errors out saying "unable > to locate class". > > Does anyone know of a simple (brute force?) way to restore simple. standard > MBRs without having to resort to a hex editor? (I will if I have to, but I'd > rather not.)
This will wipe the MBR: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=446 count=1 replace of=/dev/sdb without whatever /dev/sd? you need. henrik -- Henrik Hudson li...@rhavenn.net ----------------------------------------- "God, root, what is difference?" Pitr; UF _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"