From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 3 10:03:49 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id KAA13615 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 3 Dec 1995 10:03:49 -0800 Received: from Aspen.Woc.Atinc.COM (Aspen.Woc.Atinc.COM [198.138.38.205]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id KAA13601 for ; Sun, 3 Dec 1995 10:03:43 -0800 Received: (from jmb@localhost) by Aspen.Woc.Atinc.COM (8.6.12/8.6.9) id NAA04599; Sun, 3 Dec 1995 13:04:02 -0500 Date: Sun, 3 Dec 1995 13:04:00 -0500 (EST) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" X-Sender: jmb@Aspen.Woc.Atinc.COM To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: [Q] recovering 1.1.5.1 disk Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk i installed 2.1.0-RELEASE using the boot floppy to install to sd1 (imprimis drive). 1.1.5.1 was on sd0 (seagate drive). after the install, i tried to boot to sd0 (the 1.1.5.1 disk). 'no bootable partition'. the FreeBSD partition is gone. it was the only partition on the disk. i was able to recreate the disk partition using 'fdisk -iu'. but the disklabel is not found: keystone: [3] disklabel sd1 disklabel: ioctl DIOCGDINFO: Invalid argument how do i recover the disk without resorting to a full install and restore from tape?? here is the dmesg from the 2.1.0-RELEASE system (i switched the disks, imprimis is now sd0) jmb@keystone.woc.atinc.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/KEYSTONE CPU: i486DX (486-class CPU) real memory = 16777216 (16384K bytes) avail memory = 14970880 (14620K bytes) Probing for devices on the ISA bus: sc0 at 0x60-0x6f irq 1 on motherboard sc0: VGA color <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x0> ed0 not found at 0x280 sio0 at 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 on isa sio0: type 16550A sio1 at 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on isa sio1: type 16550A lpt0 at 0x378-0x37f irq 7 on isa lpt0: Interrupt-driven port lp0: TCP/IP capable interface psm0 at 0x60-0x63 irq 12 on motherboard fdc0 at 0x3f0-0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa fdc0: NEC 72065B fd0: 1.44MB 3.5in fd1: 1.2MB 5.25in wdc0 not found at 0x1f0 aha0 at 0x330-0x333 irq 11 drq 5 on isa aha0 waiting for scsi devices to settle (aha0:0:0): "IMPRIMIS 94601-15 1250" type 0 fixed SCSI 1 sd0(aha0:0:0): Direct-Access 989MB (2026965 512 byte sectors) (aha0:1:0): "SEAGATE ST3655N 9550" type 0 fixed SCSI 2 sd1(aha0:1:0): Direct-Access 520MB (1065036 512 byte sectors) (aha0:4:0): "EXABYTE EXB-85058SQANXR1 06S1" type 1 removable SCSI 2 st0(aha0:4:0): Sequential-Access density code 0x0, drive empty 1 3C5x9 board(s) on ISA found at 0x340 ep0 at 0x340-0x34f irq 10 on isa ep0: aui/utp[*UTP*] address 00:60:8c:be:f9:0e irq 10 npx0 on motherboard npx0: INT 16 interface sd1: cannot find label (no disk label) Jonathan M. Bresler FreeBSD Postmaster jmb@FreeBSD.ORG play go. ride bike. hack FreeBSD.--ah the good life i am moving to a new job. PLEASE USE: jmb@FreeBSD.ORG