From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG  Sun Dec 28 19:57:06 2003
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
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 D11A916A4CE
	for <questions@freebsd.org>; Sun, 28 Dec 2003 19:57:06 -0800 (PST)
Received: from smtp3.adl2.internode.on.net (smtp3.adl2.internode.on.net
	[203.16.214.203])
	by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3112F43D2D
	for <questions@freebsd.org>; Sun, 28 Dec 2003 19:57:05 -0800 (PST)
	(envelope-from malcolm.kay@internode.on.net)
Received: from beta.home (ppp109-47.lns1.adl1.internode.on.net
	[150.101.109.47])hBT3v2p5075264;
	Mon, 29 Dec 2003 14:27:03 +1030 (CST)
Content-Type: text/plain;
  charset="iso-8859-1"
From: Malcolm Kay <malcolm.kay@internode.on.net>
Organization: At home
To: Francisco Reyes <francisco@natserv.com>,
	"FreeBSD questions" <questions@freebsd.org>
Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 14:27:01 +1030
User-Agent: KMail/1.4.3
References: <200312290255.hBT2tuU6000520@mail1.acecape.com>
In-Reply-To: <200312290255.hBT2tuU6000520@mail1.acecape.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Message-Id: <200312291427.01727.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net>
Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: Please help.  Can't see HD
X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1
Precedence: list
List-Id: User questions <freebsd-questions.freebsd.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>,
	<mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions>
List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>,
	<mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 03:57:06 -0000

On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 13:29, Francisco Reyes wrote:
> On Sun, 28 Dec 2003 20:54:06 -0500, Francisco Reyes wrote:
> >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.
>
> More info..
> When starting /stand/sysinstall it shows:
> ad2: raw partition size !=3D slice size
> ad2: start 0, end 78168359, size 78165360
> ad2c: start 0, end 10239, size 10240
>
> This after upgrading to 4.9 stable as of 12-29-2003.
> The other thing I did today which I don't know if is related. I
> enabled USB today and was writing to a CF card in preparation to
> install M0n0wall on a soekris machine. After installing USB
> support and seen the card I did:
>
> gzcat net45xx-pbxrxxx.img | dd of=3D/dev/rad[n] bs=3D16k
>

This is likely your problem source!!!

/dev/rad[n] is an alias of /dev/ad[n]; that is it refers to IDE drive n.
(Historically they had somewhat different meanings but even then still
refered to the same physical device -- the 'r' means raw)

If n was 2 you have over written the beginning of ad2.


> Where the xxx were the version for the image and [n] was 1...
> /dev/rad1 (or was it.. 0..). Isn't that the CF card writer? I
> got the number after looking at camcontrol and usbdevs (can't
> remember which one from)... Did I messed up the drive when
> writing that image?
>

The scsii / usb devices appear under names such as da[n] or rda[n].

Yes; I think you did.

Likely you will need to reconfigure your drive and=20
reinstall from your backup.

Malcolm Kay