From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 30 21:56:11 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA04103 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 30 Jan 1997 21:56:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA04098 for ; Thu, 30 Jan 1997 21:56:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.4/8.6.12) with SMTP id VAA29244; Thu, 30 Jan 1997 21:56:07 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 21:56:07 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Francis Yeung cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how to fixit In-Reply-To: <9701310112.AA15407@fyeung8.netific.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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