Re: Invalid partition table, 1st entry [OFFTOPIC]

Guest section DW (dwguest@win.tue.nl)
Sat, 23 Oct 1999 22:07:38 +0200 (MET DST)


From: John Kacur <kacur1@home.com>

Does anyone know how to restore a hard drive's partition table. I messed
it up, trying to put FreeBSD on hda, with Linux already on hdb. When I
run /sbin/lilo to install lilo on hda, I get the message.
[root@speedy jkacur]# /sbin/lilo
Added linux
Added linuxmine *
Device 0x0300: Invalid partition table, 1st entry
3D address: 0/0/0 (-1)
Linear address: 1/0/0 (0)
[root@speedy jkacur]#

Anyone know what to do?

jkacur@vaxxine.com

If I recall correctly, you can install FreeBSD both on the entire disk
or in a DOS-type partition. It uses a different type of partition table itself.
LILO expects a DOS-type partition table, so if you want to use LILO on hda
and also have FreeBSD on hda, it is easiest to have FreeBSD inside a partition,
and not on the whole disk.

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