Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2002 16:27:24 -0500 From: Hiten Pandya <hiten@angelica.unixdaemons.com> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Unsucessful with 5.0-CURRENT Installation on a 120G IDE HDD Message-ID: <20021101162724.A51418@angelica.unixdaemons.com> In-Reply-To: <3DC2EA8C.6060107@uk.FreeBSD.org>; from hiten@uk.FreeBSD.org on Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 08:56:44PM %2B0000 References: <3DC2EA8C.6060107@uk.FreeBSD.org>
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On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 08:56:44PM +0000, Hiten Pandya wrote the words in effect of: > Hi there. > > I tried installing the 5.0-CURRENT-20021028-JPSNAP ISO today, on my 120G > harddrive, which is the second one on the system. Sysinstall failed to get > the right geometry of the disk, even though the BIOS was in LBA mode. > > My 50G FreeBSD partition (ad1s3) as two partitions, 1000MB and a 128MB. > The DOS partition (ad1s2) on the harddrive was just right, and nothing > wrong it, but only the FreeBSD partitions messed up. > > I made a 8G partition on the front of the disk (ad1s1), in which I was > planning to install FreeBSD. Now, I am not sure what the real cause is, > i.e. why are we not allowed to install on an 8G partition on a 120G disk? > > It could be that I am doing something very wrong, but I would like to get > to the bottom of this, as I lost about 15G worth of data, i.e. fdisk still > shows that the partition is there, but fsck_ffs is not proceeding. This > could be because of GEOM or something, but I am not sure, as I cannot try a > non-GEOM sysinstall anyway. > > Also, is there a way I can get that 15G worth of data back, somehow, or do > I just have to say bye-bye to it? > > All help will be appreciated. > Cheers. > Please let me know what type of information is needed for debugging this problem. Cheers. -- Hiten Pandya hiten@unixdaemons.com, hiten@uk.FreeBSD.org, hiten@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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