Date: Sun, 23 May 1999 01:45:18 -0400 (EDT) From: "Craig A. Struble" <cstruble@vt.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Need help recovering from major mistake Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.4.02.9905230127520.12492-100000@csgrad.cs.vt.edu>
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Hi, I just made a major mistake with my FreeBSD drive that I hope I can recover from. Not thinking too far ahead, I tried to install OS-BS on a dangerously dedicated FreeBSD drive. This had the unfortunate side effect of wiping out both the boot code and disklabel from the drive. I'd like to restore them, but I don't have a printout of what the disklabel used to be. Therein lies the challenge. Using my FreeBSD CD-ROMs, I've been able to go into fixit mode and mount the root filesystem of the drive, but I'm not sure where to go from there. How can I figure out what my old disklabel was? Is there some way I can search the raw disk for the locations of the file systems? Any help will be GREATLY appreciated. Please email me directly with your responses as I'm not subscribed to the FreeBSD mailing lists. See ya later, Craig -- Craig Struble (cstruble@vt.edu) Ph.D. Candidate, Virginia Tech http://www.acm.vt.edu/~cstruble/ cstruble@vt.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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