Alpha and labels stuff

[Bernd Walter]

On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 01:48:10AM +0000, Pierrick Brossin wrote:
> Bernd Walter wrote:
> 
> >You still have an fdisk table on the disk - just without partitions.
> >In fact I don't know what detail sysinstall confuses - if I would then
> >it should be easier to fix.
> 
> Well I'm home and I first tried to "fdisk /mdr" the HD so the mbr is
> emtpy. Didnt work.

With fdsik /mbr you write an mbr - not zeros.
Also you have an empty fdisk table - not a cleared block.

> Then I decided to use my special (:D) IBM floppy which I use to low
> level format HD or Zero fill HD. The low level format didn't work since
> it's not an IBM HD I guess but the Zero Filling function worked.
> But it's still the same thing, same error in the disklabel editor.

>From within FreeBSD:
dd if=/dev/zero bs=10240 count=1 of=/dev/adn
replace adn with ad0 or whatever your disk is named.

> The HD is known to work perfectly. A friend of mine who was using
> Windows XP on it gave it to me cause it was too small.

What I wrote - sysinstalls stumbles over the contents on that disk.

> Any other idea ?

You need to get that fdisk table from the disk.
You can't expect tools that handle fdisk partitions to wipe them.
An empty fdisk table is still an fdisk table.

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