Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 10:07:18 -1000 From: NetOpsCenter <noc@hdk5.net> To: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Jonathan McKeown <jonathan+freebsd-questions@hst.org.za> Subject: Re: fdisk from fixit CD: geom not found Message-ID: <47B893F6.4010507@hdk5.net> In-Reply-To: <20080217204908.D4208@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> References: <200802172144.36924.jonathan%2Bfreebsd-questions@hst.org.za> <20080217204908.D4208@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
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Wojciech Puchar wrote: >> >> Boot install CD and choose Fixit > > get live CD, it's better for this. > >> fdisk -BI >> extract saved disklabel from tape and install with bsdlabel >> Initialise filesystems using stored output of dumpfs -m (from tape) >> Restore filesystems from tape > > good you have such i plan. this is rare case today;) > >> >> I'm tripping up on the first step, which although it appears to >> create the > > you forgot to bsdlabel -B ad0a (or da0s1a whatever you have) after > restore > >> slice, throws a ``Geom not found'' message - which is potentially >> worrying to >> someone blindly following a recovery script. > no idea, i don't use slices (just disklabel) > > maybe kernel module not loaded? > > is slice actually created? > > as far as i remember i've got this message with bsdlabel -B, but i > ignored it as everything worked fine. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > Aloha, I get that response with many of the large hard drives I install. I dont think it means anything because once you just carry on FreeBSD doesn't seem to care. I think somebody posted that it was either bios or drive size related at one time. ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + noc@hdk5.net + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 6.* - 7.* + "All that's really worth doing is what we do for others."- Lewis Carrol
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