Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1998 20:30:27 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin <jbaldwin@freedomnet.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Help! I fried my disk label... Message-ID: <Pine.BSD/.3.91.980815202200.11137A-100000@freedomnet.com>
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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
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