From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 2 15:30:54 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA11585 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 2 Oct 1996 15:30:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from neworder.cc.uky.edu (neworder.cc.uky.edu [128.163.18.198]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA11573 for ; Wed, 2 Oct 1996 15:30:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from soward@localhost) by neworder.cc.uky.edu (8.7/Soward0.1) id SAA14936 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 2 Oct 1996 18:30:44 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199610022230.SAA14936@neworder.cc.uky.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 4.0 v141) Content-Type: text/plain Received: by NeXT.Mailer (1.141) From: John Soward Date: Wed, 2 Oct 96 18:30:43 -0400 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Recover disklabel Reply-To: soward@service1.uky.edu Organization: University of Kentucky Technical Services X-URL: "http://neworder.cc.uky.edu/" Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I've got a 1G seagate IDE which used to have FreeBSD on it (2.1.5). In fact I hope it still does, but I just seem to have misplaced it...after fighting with F? for a while I loaded a fixit floppy, and tried fdisk and disklabel, fdisk looked okay, but disklabel complained about bad magic and was unable to read the label. Since then I've tried to "re-create" a label by paritioning the drive and labeling it, but asking sysinstall not to make the filesystems...I was pretty sure I just took the defaults (A), but I actually installed with 2.2SNAP (may), and retro-fitted back to 2.1.5R by supping stable and doing a make world...so perhaps things have gotten changed concerning the default partition...I bet if I could just find the first one... Anyone have any ideas -- of course there's some data on there that I "was just about to back up".... thanx, --- John Soward JpS Systems Programmer 'The Midnight sun will burn you up.' University of Kentucky (NeXT and MIME mail OK) -R. Smith