From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 15 17:35:06 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA09713 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 15 Aug 1998 17:35:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from freedomnet.com (freedomnet.com [198.240.104.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA09707 for ; Sat, 15 Aug 1998 17:35:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jbaldwin@freedomnet.com) Received: (from jbaldwin@localhost) by freedomnet.com (8.8.7/8.8.7/antispam) id UAA11361; Sat, 15 Aug 1998 20:30:28 -0400 (EDT) X-Envelope-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1998 20:30:27 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Help! I fried my disk label... Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi all, I hope this is the right place to ask this, but at the moment I can't get out much. Here is my situation: On my second hard drive (wd1) I have two partitions: one for NT and one for FreeBSD. Today, I added a new hard drive to my system, and as a result, I am now converting the NT partition to another BSD partition. So, I booted BSD and pulled up /stand/sysinstall. I used Configure|Fdisk to delete the NT partition and create a BSD one in its place. Then I ran the disk label editor. Since the label editor had my current mountpoints as question marks and not their current status, I thought that I should fix those. Well, when I committed the changes, it panic'd and rebooted when it tried to run disklabel on the then-mounted root partition (wd1s2a). Well, when I tried to boot BSD again, it said that it couldn't read the root partition. I booted the system with a 2.2.2 floppy and used the fixit option with the 2nd CD. I have successfully mounted my old root partition in the shell and fsck'ed. I have also fsck'd my old /usr and /var partitions and everything is Ok. I did lose two files on my root partition (they were unreferenced) but both kernel and kernel.GENERIC are still ok on the root partition. I'm running 2.2.7-stable from about August 10th, btw. What can I do to get the bootloader to recognize my old root partition on wd1s2a so that I can boot? Please mail me directly at this address since I'm not reading the questions list. Thanks for any and all help. John Baldwin jbaldwin@richmond.freedomnet.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message