From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 13 12:24:08 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id MAA16585 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 13 Nov 1997 12:24:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA16474 for ; Thu, 13 Nov 1997 12:23:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id MAA02417; Thu, 13 Nov 1997 12:23:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Thu, 13 Nov 1997 12:23:51 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: FreeBSD Administrator cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Opps: Bad Superblock after Sys. Cmdr install In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19971111150752.00d26a6c@207.207.207.90> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 11 Nov 1997, FreeBSD Administrator wrote: > OK. I thought I'd try installing System Commander, with all it's cool > booting features to use with the multiple OSes on one of my machines. > Unfortunately, not only did it write a new MBR on my C: IDE drive (bios > 80), but it looks like it trashed my D: SCSI drive (bios 81). My system is > backed up to tape, but I'm not sure it's good. [...] Ouch, you are in a pickle. :-( I have a feeling that SysCommander saw the disklabel on the second disk as some MBR junk and partition table-ized it. So now you have a pretty partition table there but a munched disklabel. If you knew the exact values of the disklabel you might be able to reconstitute it. Otherwise you'd better test your backup. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major