Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2002 02:36:14 -0700 From: "Philip J. Koenig" <pjklist@ekahuna.com> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Sysinstall corrupts disklabel Message-ID: <20020915093615355.AAA770@empty1.ekahuna.com@dyn205.ekahuna.com>
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Running 4.6-STABLE from 8/2002. Added a disk (1 AMI MegaRAID existing logical disk, added a new HD on Adaptec ahc0 as da0), went into Sysinstall to try to fdisk/disklabel it. Somewhere in the process of wrestling with the usual confusing prompts (no Quit option, cancel accepts, doesn't go where the cursor is pointed, gets "stuck" on a disk device and won't allow the other to be selected, yada yada) Sysinstall blew away my disklabel. This is a common problem it seems, I've run into it before. Had to manually piece it together last time on a different box. Apparently there's an old bug (someone posted in July about this) where if you try to change a partition type in Sysinstall, it hoses the disklabel. Well I didn't *actually* try to change the partition type, but I may have pressed the command once in Sysinstall and then tried to cancel out. (but who knows, with Sysinstall it's often like Orwell's 1984: War is Peace, Yes is No, cancel is accept.. :-) Anyway, I don't have a backup copy of the disklabel, currently the in- memory version just shows a "c" partition, if I try to read it from disk I get "disklabel: bad pack magic number (label is damaged...)" Is there a shortcut to getting this back or do I have to go through the partitions one-by-one and try to figure out all the offsets? (This machine has 6 partitions on it) Funny thing is the system seems to boot OK, df and mount output look normal, etc. But I can't do anything with the disks like disklabel the new one, etc. TIA, Phil -- Philip J. Koenig pjklist@ekahuna.com Electric Kahuna Systems -- Computers & Communications for the New Millenium To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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