Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 18:49:50 +0300 From: Nimrod Mesika <nimrodm@bezeqint.net> To: dochawk@psu.edu, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fumbling around to find the start of my slice Message-ID: <20000720184950.A4594@localhost.bsd.net.il> In-Reply-To: <E13FHGr-0006eb-00@hawkins.ds.psu.edu>; from hawk@fac13.ds.psu.edu on Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 10:25:53AM -0400 References: <E13FHGr-0006eb-00@hawkins.ds.psu.edu>
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On Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 10:25:53AM -0400, Richard E. Hawkins wrote: > > I've tried here before, but I've figured out a bit more since then. Or > should I try the developer's list? > > Windows thwacked my partition table, overwriting it with nonsense. I > didn't realize this at first, as the bootloader sort of worked--I had > to manually tell it the root device, as it kept trying to default to > 3a rather than 3c. Have you tried 'gpart'? It's in the ports. gpart can find the begining of a partition. Worked for me when I destroyed my partition table. Try 'gpart -f' for a full scan (but read the manpage first!). -- Nimrod. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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