From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 28 17:50:08 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E60A16A4CE for ; Sun, 28 Dec 2003 17:50:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail1.acecape.com (mail1.acecape.com [66.114.74.12]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57BC143D1F for ; Sun, 28 Dec 2003 17:50:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from francisco@natserv.com) Received: from miguel (p65-147.acedsl.com [66.114.65.147]) by mail1.acecape.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id hBT1o6U6013566 for ; Sun, 28 Dec 2003 20:50:06 -0500 Message-Id: <200312290150.hBT1o6U6013566@mail1.acecape.com> From: "Francisco Reyes" To: "FreeBSD questions" Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2003 20:54:06 -0500 Priority: Normal X-Mailer: PMMail 2000 Professional (2.10.2010) For Windows 2000 (5.0.2195;4) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Please help. Can't see HD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Francisco Reyes List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 01:50:08 -0000 Upgraded to stable like so many countless times. All was fine after reboot. After a few more reboots while troubleshooting why a port was not coming up at bootup the machine froze right after loading the kernel... at the part with the spinning lines... |/-\ <== like those.. Upon bootup I am able to get the boot prompt if I press space bar, but the only thing I am able to do is 'boot kernel'. Booting from a CD I was able to see the HD, but it lost it's label information. I went and purchased a new HD and am in the process of restoring most of my data from a second HD I have on that machine just for backup purposes. I still have a couple of things that are not backed up and would like to try and recover. Is there a way to recover the label info? I don't know if the HD is dying or whether the filesystem/HD boot sector is messed up. If I go using /stand/sysinstall and try the partition option it tells me that the disk geometry is wrong, but I also got the same for the new HD I installed today. After pressing OK the HD lists the entire HD space as free. Any suggestions?