From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 20 01:56:03 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4869CA2B for ; Sun, 20 Jan 2013 01:56:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from crtb@cape.com) Received: from pop.cape.com (pop.cape.com [209.213.66.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24E74A22 for ; Sun, 20 Jan 2013 01:56:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from webmail.cape.com (pop.cape.com [127.0.0.1]) by pop.cape.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E337D204057; Sat, 19 Jan 2013 20:50:35 -0500 (EST) Received: from 209.213.65.17 (SquirrelMail authenticated user crtb) by webmail.cape.com with HTTP; Sat, 19 Jan 2013 20:50:35 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <2762.209.213.65.17.1358646635.squirrel@webmail.cape.com> Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2013 20:50:35 -0500 (EST) Subject: clobbered boot block From: "Chuck Bacon" To: questions@freebsd.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.13 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Cc: Chuck Bacon X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2013 01:56:03 -0000 I used dd to cover a whole new disk; bad idea. I installed 9.1-R, and the install CD said all was OK. Yet I was unable to mount any of it. fdisk seemed happy, and could read and write. bsdlabel returned "unable to get correct path for ada0s1 (same for ada01)". -- uname -a -- FreeBSD tomato.local 9.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE #0: Tue. Jan 3 07:46:30 UTC 2012 root@farrell.cse buffalo.edu: /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 Hearty thanks to all, Chuck Bacon