Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 20:51:32 +0100 (CET) From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> To: Jonathan McKeown <jonathan+freebsd-questions@hst.org.za> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fdisk from fixit CD: geom not found Message-ID: <20080217204908.D4208@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> In-Reply-To: <200802172144.36924.jonathan%2Bfreebsd-questions@hst.org.za> References: <200802172144.36924.jonathan%2Bfreebsd-questions@hst.org.za>
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> > Boot install CD and choose Fixit get live CD, it's better for this. > fdisk -BI > extract saved disklabel from tape and install with bsdlabel > Initialise filesystems using stored output of dumpfs -m (from tape) > Restore filesystems from tape good you have such i plan. this is rare case today;) > > I'm tripping up on the first step, which although it appears to create the you forgot to bsdlabel -B ad0a (or da0s1a whatever you have) after restore > slice, throws a ``Geom not found'' message - which is potentially worrying to > someone blindly following a recovery script. no idea, i don't use slices (just disklabel) maybe kernel module not loaded? is slice actually created? as far as i remember i've got this message with bsdlabel -B, but i ignored it as everything worked fine.
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