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Date:      Thu, 30 Jan 1997 21:56:07 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Francis Yeung <fyeung@fyeung8.netific.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: how to fixit
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.94.970130215458.28180L-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <9701310112.AA15407@fyeung8.netific.com>

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On Thu, 30 Jan 1997, Francis Yeung wrote:

> 	During upgrade from 2.1.5 to 2.1.6, I made a dum mistake
> in doing sync/sync/reboot after I merged my old /etc/ files into the 
> upgraded /etc directory instead of doing an exit. 

Huh?  That's exactly what you're supposed to do in the subshell!

> 	The disk partitions got yanked and the disk can not be booted
> anymore because of invalid partition. 

Is this from mount or what?

> 	Using the "fixit" floppy, "disklabel -r wd0" indicates that
> the label is invalid. There is no vi in the "fixit" floppy. 
> 
> 
> 	What will be my best shot in recovering the disklabel (slices/
> partitions etc) ? Or anything from the disk.

This is beyond me -- I'm not familiar with disk recovery.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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