Uh Oh Spaghettio's...Partition Map is MIA

[bruce woller]

B1:

You might try a fix Owen supplied when YDL3.0 started trashing  
partition maps.  The HOWTO is here:
http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/support/solutions/ydl_3.0/dual-drive- 
fix.shtml

Regards,
Bruce
On Mar 10, 2005, at 5:55 PM, B1 wrote:

> I can't remember the exact order of operations which
> caused my partition map to corrupt. I was trying to
> fdisk -L and it kept saying my blocks were
> inaccurately displaying and my whole partition map
> would not show on hda. Somehow fdisk gave me a w
> option to write the in-memory copy of the boot block
> to disk. I did so foolishly and toyed around in linux
> trying to get my partitions to display. Reboot shows
> no hard drives what so every. The hard drive is hasn't
> failed because the Unbuntu live cd fdisk -L shows the
> map but it segmentation faults after. The Unbuntu /dev
> shows no drive what so ever.
>
> Do I need to scrap the freshly updated YDL, OSX
> partitions and start fresh or can I use 3rd party
> tools to fix the map. I remember Norton's ability to
> fix B trees in OS9 which is similar to my problem I
> think?
>
> Just had the problem so I haven't had a chance to try
> other tools....feedback welcomed
>
>
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