Solved: Lost MBR/wrong disk geometry

[Erik Norgaard]

Erik Norgaard wrote:
> Jeremy Faulkner wrote:
>> 'fdisk -B' didn't work?
> Nope :-( I have installed gpart, it complians*

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad0 bs=512 count=32
fdisk -BI ad0
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad0s1 bs=512 count=32
bsdlabel -w -B ad0s1

did the job. I think I shouldn't have specified -w in the last command 
because it created a root partition taking the whole disk which I then 
had to delete.

But, at least I'm up booting :-)

Cheers, Erik

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