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Date:      Sun, 24 Aug 1997 19:55:13 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        "Michael A. Endsley" <me@corecom.net>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Lost slices (Win95)
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.970824195334.1721U-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <3.0.2.32.19970815231033.006b98fc@pop.corecom.net>

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On Fri, 15 Aug 1997, Michael A. Endsley wrote:

> I have a 1.6 gig WD harddisk that has (had) Win3.1 and BSD 2.2.1-R.
> They were both about 800 megs. Without thinking, I upgraded the Win 3.1 to
> Win95.  I also use BootManager from OS/2. When I re-booted for FBSD, it
> booted ok, then dropped me to a shell after doing the probes. It said to
> run FSCK manually. I found that I had lost all my different slices
> (usr/var/swap).

They aren't lost, they just aren't mounted.  What was the error message
reported before you were prompted for a shell?  Something you did must
have made FreeBSD unhappy.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major
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