From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 20 8:57:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.bezeqint.net (mail-a.bezeqint.net [192.115.106.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3677C37C1B5 for ; Thu, 20 Jul 2000 08:57:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nimrodm@bezeqint.net) Received: from bsd.net.il ([212.179.183.57]) by mail.bezeqint.net (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.3.5.2000.03.23.18.03.p10) with ESMTP id <0FY000JXN6V4V2@mail.bezeqint.net> for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 20 Jul 2000 18:54:50 +0300 (IDT) Received: (from nimrodm@localhost) by bsd.net.il (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA06041; Thu, 20 Jul 2000 18:49:50 +0300 (IDT envelope-from nimrodm) Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 18:49:50 +0300 From: Nimrod Mesika Subject: Re: fumbling around to find the start of my slice In-reply-to: ; from hawk@fac13.ds.psu.edu on Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 10:25:53AM -0400 To: dochawk@psu.edu, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: nimrodm@email.com Message-id: <20000720184950.A4594@localhost.bsd.net.il> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-disposition: inline Mail-Followup-To: dochawk@psu.edu, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i References: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 10:25:53AM -0400, Richard E. Hawkins wrote: > > I've tried here before, but I've figured out a bit more since then. Or > should I try the developer's list? > > Windows thwacked my partition table, overwriting it with nonsense. I > didn't realize this at first, as the bootloader sort of worked--I had > to manually tell it the root device, as it kept trying to default to > 3a rather than 3c. Have you tried 'gpart'? It's in the ports. gpart can find the begining of a partition. Worked for me when I destroyed my partition table. Try 'gpart -f' for a full scan (but read the manpage first!). -- Nimrod. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message