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

[Daniel Gimpelevich]

That won't help in this case because the Driver Descriptor Map is also
hosed. This is what happens when you type fdisk instead of pdisk. You need
to reformat the drive. You may rescue your partitions onto a spare drive
with dd.

On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 18:15:20 -0700, bruce woller wrote:

> 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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