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On Sat, 23 Dec 2006 01:23:13 +0000, Alan E. Davis wrote: |
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> Can anyone point me to the right literature on line or other help? It |
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> could be a hardware problem, but one suspects the partition table and |
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> boot record. Gpart was unable to determine the sector size. |
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Try running cfdisk with the -z option. This ignores the MBR and starts |
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afresh with a blank one. If that fails, try zeroing the MBR with |
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dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdX bs=512 count=1 |
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If it still fails, it would appear to be a broken disk. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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To most people solutions mean finding the answers. But to chemists |
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solutions are things that are still all mixed up. |
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