Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 14:27:01 +1030 From: Malcolm Kay <malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> To: Francisco Reyes <francisco@natserv.com>, "FreeBSD questions" <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: Please help. Can't see HD Message-ID: <200312291427.01727.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> In-Reply-To: <200312290255.hBT2tuU6000520@mail1.acecape.com> References: <200312290255.hBT2tuU6000520@mail1.acecape.com>
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On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 13:29, Francisco Reyes wrote: > On Sun, 28 Dec 2003 20:54:06 -0500, Francisco Reyes wrote: > >Is there a way to recover the label info? I don't know if the HD > >is dying or whether the filesystem/HD boot sector is messed up. > > More info.. > When starting /stand/sysinstall it shows: > ad2: raw partition size !=3D slice size > ad2: start 0, end 78168359, size 78165360 > ad2c: start 0, end 10239, size 10240 > > This after upgrading to 4.9 stable as of 12-29-2003. > The other thing I did today which I don't know if is related. I > enabled USB today and was writing to a CF card in preparation to > install M0n0wall on a soekris machine. After installing USB > support and seen the card I did: > > gzcat net45xx-pbxrxxx.img | dd of=3D/dev/rad[n] bs=3D16k > This is likely your problem source!!! /dev/rad[n] is an alias of /dev/ad[n]; that is it refers to IDE drive n. (Historically they had somewhat different meanings but even then still refered to the same physical device -- the 'r' means raw) If n was 2 you have over written the beginning of ad2. > Where the xxx were the version for the image and [n] was 1... > /dev/rad1 (or was it.. 0..). Isn't that the CF card writer? I > got the number after looking at camcontrol and usbdevs (can't > remember which one from)... Did I messed up the drive when > writing that image? > The scsii / usb devices appear under names such as da[n] or rda[n]. Yes; I think you did. Likely you will need to reconfigure your drive and=20 reinstall from your backup. Malcolm Kay
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