From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 3 14:10:31 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ux1.ibb.net (ibb0005.ibb.uu.nl [131.211.124.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6950152D4 for ; Fri, 3 Dec 1999 14:10:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from reinoud@ibbnet.nl) Received: from localhost (reinoud@localhost) by ux1.ibb.net (8.9.3/8.9.3/UX1TT) with SMTP id XAA10055; Fri, 3 Dec 1999 23:10:07 +0100 Date: Fri, 3 Dec 1999 23:10:07 +0100 (MET) From: Reinoud Koornstra X-Sender: reinoud@ux1.ibb.net To: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: unable to boot. In-Reply-To: <19991203024845.A32201@hades.hell.gr> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I understand now what went wrong with my second harddisk. Okay, i believe freebsd has two was of partitioning right? On is the normal way, starting the first partition at sector 63 and the second way, the dangerous way, starting at sector 1 which is not common. Perhaps freebsd has done that. Freebsd i installed at first on a harddisk. Open and netbsd both have another disk geometry as freebsd and freebsd is screaming about corrupted labels of net and openbsd and that the slices of netbsd are not completly within the the partition. I dont know what is really wrong. WHat i do know, is that freebsd and netbsd dont get along to well, concerning partitioning and creating labels. Anyway..... i think its the way i said that freebsd has two ways of partitioning. From now i cant boot freebsd anymore. Cause the other os'ses see it as starting from sector 63. Of course it could also mean the the bootloader is corrupted. Another thing is when i installed the freebsd bootloader, netbsd could net be booted anymore. Cause with installing the freebsd bootloader it added its own geometry to the partitions and disk which arent right. I used fdisk -u to correct it and netbsd boots again. To be short.... i am not sure in the case wether freebsd starts really at sector 1, or just at 63 with a corrupted bootloader. Is there a way to recover the data which i have on my freebsd partitions? Are there disks downloadable with which i can acces the slices on the freebsd partition? Could anyone help here? Bye, Reinoud. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message