From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] desperation question: disklabel, unable to write to disk, etc.
Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2006 08:14:55 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061223081455.7233decc@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7bef1f890612221723v5fdd9938y8863b8ba88c22062@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sat, 23 Dec 2006 01:23:13 +0000, Alan E. Davis wrote:
> Can anyone point me to the right literature on line or other help? It
> could be a hardware problem, but one suspects the partition table and
> boot record. Gpart was unable to determine the sector size.
Try running cfdisk with the -z option. This ignores the MBR and starts
afresh with a blank one. If that fails, try zeroing the MBR with
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdX bs=512 count=1
If it still fails, it would appear to be a broken disk.
--
Neil Bothwick
To most people solutions mean finding the answers. But to chemists
solutions are things that are still all mixed up.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-12-23 8:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-12-23 1:23 [gentoo-user] desperation question: disklabel, unable to write to disk, etc Alan E. Davis
2006-12-23 8:14 ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2006-12-23 23:22 ` Alan E. Davis
2006-12-24 2:31 ` Daniel Iliev
2006-12-24 3:07 ` Alan E. Davis
2006-12-24 8:42 ` PaulNM
2006-12-24 13:09 ` Mick
2007-01-03 10:30 ` Nelson, David (ED, PAR&D)
2007-01-03 11:49 ` Alan E. Davis
2007-01-03 12:48 ` Nelson, David (ED, PAR&D)
2006-12-24 9:16 ` Neil Bothwick
2006-12-24 13:05 ` Alan E. Davis
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