Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 15:34:36 -0400 (EDT) From: Mikhail Teterin <mi@video-collage.com> To: julian@whistle.com (Julian Elischer) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: recovering disk Message-ID: <199808261934.PAA17500@xxx.video-collage.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.980826115816.2391A-100000@current1.whistle.com> from Julian Elischer at "Aug 26, 98 12:09:00 pm"
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Julian Elischer once stated: =firstly = =fdisk partitions cannot start at 0 = =usually they start either at 1 or at 64 or at the beginning of the 2nd =cylinder. how did you make that drive? different methids will have done =differnt things. I think I used the "dangerous" method, but it was a long time ago... According to fdisk, there was only one FreeBSD partition: The data for partition 4 is: sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) start 1, size 4193639 (2047 Meg), flag 80 (active) beg: cyl 0/ sector 2/ head 0; end: cyl 457/ sector 44/ head 10 Is this what sd1s1 refers to? If so, I do not need to bother with fdisk at all and proceed to the disklabel... So what should I do instead of the plain: root@rtfm:/home/mi (108) disklabel -e sd1 disklabel: ioctl DIOCGDINFO: Invalid argument Where is disklabel stored on the disk, can it be saved on top of my filesystem (which, I think, starts about 64Mb from the beginning of the disk)? =the fdisk was possibly still there.. =if so, it was the disklabel that was gone.. =this is likely because it appears to have complained about abad label =rather than a bad MBR. I hope the above will further help you help me... Thanks a lot! Sorry to waste your time. -mi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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