From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 22 3: 9: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.aracnet.com (mail2.aracnet.com [216.99.193.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E54237B4C5 for ; Wed, 22 Nov 2000 03:09:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from aracnet.com (216-99-218-166.dsl.aracnet.com [216.99.218.166]) by mail2.aracnet.com (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id eAMB96s04823 for ; Wed, 22 Nov 2000 03:09:06 -0800 Message-ID: <3A1BA94B.D4E268DD@aracnet.com> Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 03:08:59 -0800 From: dmp@aracnet.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Disklabel lost Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I did something really stupid, I tried installing Windows 2000 on the same disk as FreeBSD, after I had installed FreeBSD. (What can I say sometimes I put my mind in gear before the hampster is in the wheel). Win2k barfed on my UDMA/66 controller, so it wouldn't install, but when I tried going back to FreeBSD, it barfed on me saying it couldn't find any of my partitions (not even the root partition). So I load the fixit shell off the CD (using the live filesystem disc). dmesg output says my disk is ad4, so I set to poking at the thing: Fixit# fdisk -1 ad4 The data for partition 1 is: sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) start 63, size 40088097 (19574 Meg), flag 80 (active) beg: cyl 0/ sector 1/ head 1; end: cyl 1023/ sector 63/ head 15 Fixit# disklabel -r ad4 disklabel: bad pack magic number (label is damaged, or pack is unlabeled) Fixit# disklabel ad4 # /dev/ad4: type: unknown disk: amnesiac label: fictitious flags: bytes/sector: 512 sector/track: 63 sectors/cylinder: 1008 cylinders: 39770 sectors/unit: 40088160 rpm: 3600 interleave: 1 trackskew: 0 cylinderskew: 0 headswitch: 0 # milliseconds track-to-track seek: 0 # milliseconds drivedata: 0 8 partitions: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] c: 40088160 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 39769 So if I'm reading this correctly, the disklabel is gone? Is this where I reinstall FreeBSD, or do I have a chance of restoring? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message