PartitionMagic reports errors on the Harddisk

['chris']

hi

If I try to check my second Harddisk with PartitionMagic 8,
then I get following ERROR:
(pls see the attachment)

PartitionMagic could not repair this error !

On the second Harddisk I have freeBSD 5.3 already installed
and I've tried to install linux SUSE in the freespace.

Knows someone what's wrong and how to solve this problem ?

kind regards
chris

[Uwe Zessin]

You have put FreeBSD on your second disk and now you try to alter the partitioning of this disk, right?

Are you sure that PartitionMagic understands partition type number used by FreeBSD? I bet you have a partition utility on FreeBSD. I'd try to use it on the disk to find out what type it is.

['chris']

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"" Are you sure that PartitionMagic understands partition type number used by FreeBSD? ""
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YES !

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"" I bet you have a partition utility on FreeBSD. I'd try to use it on the disk to find out what type it is. ""
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fdisk from freeBSD doesn't work and reports errors.
even I cannot backup the MBR (saved before the problem occurred):

# dd if=mbr.backup of=/dev/ad1 bs=512 count=1
dd: /dev/ad1: Operation not permitted

[Uwe Zessin · Accepted solution]

Do you see anything useful when you try

# disklabel ad1

??

['chris']

thanks !

I've saved freeBSD, formated the MBR, created and formated new partitions and installed again from the backup.
Now it seems to work.