Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2004 22:50:07 -0800 From: "Evan Dower" <evantd@hotmail.com> To: dejan.lesjak@ijs.si Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Recovering Damaged Partition Table Message-ID: <BAY8-F82AsFo0xOX06a0006b17e@hotmail.com>
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Well, it worked mostly. I've got the partition table back and reinstalled boot0, but I must be confused about the later boot stages, because I can't get the partition I want to boot properly. I can boot from ad0s1a, but I want to boot from ad0s2a. I can mount ad0s1a and ad0s2a as well as ad0s3{d,e,f}, and everything seems to be in tact. In the bootloader, when I hit F2 to boot ad0s2a it just beeps at me. I tried to use 'bsdlabel -B /dev/ad0s2', but I must have done something wrong, because it didn't work. I also tried 'bsdlabel -B -b /current/boot/boot /dev/ad0s2' where /dev/ad0s2a is mounted on /current to no avail. What do I need to do? Thanks some more, -- Evan Dower Undergraduate, Computer Science University of Washington Public key: http://students.washington.edu/evantd/pgp-pub-key.txt Key fingerprint = D321 FA24 4BDA F82D 53A9 5B27 7D15 5A4F 033F 887D >From: Dejan Lesjak <dejan.lesjak@ijs.si> >To: Evan Dower <evantd@hotmail.com> >CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >Subject: Re: Recovering Damaged Partition Table >Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 04:44:32 +0100 > >Evan Dower wrote: > > > So, the other day I was ripping some CDs... > > > > Upon restart, there was a message that ad0 had an unrecoverable error > > (media changed). It's a hard disk. I didn't notice any gnomes breaking > > into my computer and changing it on me. No matter. It won't boot. I > > installed FreeBSD on an empty partition of another disk, which is how I > > got to where I am now. Naturally, I have no backups. > > > > My plan is to reconstruct the partition table and then all should be >fine. > > I've determined that my files seem to be in tact using 'strings /dev/ad0 >| > > less'. It even looks like part of the partition table remains. > > > >Hello, >You can try with this utility: >http://www.stud.uni-hannover.de/user/76201/gpart/ >which is also included on knoppix live-cd >(http://www.knoppix.org/) >I just saved two NTFS partitions with it, so I hope this helps... > >Dejan _________________________________________________________________ Check out the great features of the new MSN 9 Dial-up, with the MSN Dial-up Accelerator. http://click.atdmt.com/AVE/go/onm00200361ave/direct/01/
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