From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 24 20:00:37 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id UAA10870 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 24 Aug 1997 20:00:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts13-line3.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.152]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id UAA10865 for ; Sun, 24 Aug 1997 20:00:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id TAA01873; Sun, 24 Aug 1997 19:56:34 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 24 Aug 1997 19:55:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: "Michael A. Endsley" cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Lost slices (Win95) In-Reply-To: <3.0.2.32.19970815231033.006b98fc@pop.corecom.net> 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 Fri, 15 Aug 1997, Michael A. Endsley wrote: > I have a 1.6 gig WD harddisk that has (had) Win3.1 and BSD 2.2.1-R. > They were both about 800 megs. Without thinking, I upgraded the Win 3.1 to > Win95. I also use BootManager from OS/2. When I re-booted for FBSD, it > booted ok, then dropped me to a shell after doing the probes. It said to > run FSCK manually. I found that I had lost all my different slices > (usr/var/swap). They aren't lost, they just aren't mounted. What was the error message reported before you were prompted for a shell? Something you did must have made FreeBSD unhappy. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo