Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2003 20:54:06 -0500 From: "Francisco Reyes" <francisco@natserv.com> To: "FreeBSD questions" <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Please help. Can't see HD Message-ID: <200312290150.hBT1o6U6013566@mail1.acecape.com>
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Upgraded to stable like so many countless times. All was fine after reboot. After a few more reboots while troubleshooting why a port was not coming up at bootup the machine froze right after loading the kernel... at the part with the spinning lines... |/-\ <== like those.. Upon bootup I am able to get the boot prompt if I press space bar, but the only thing I am able to do is 'boot kernel'. Booting from a CD I was able to see the HD, but it lost it's label information. I went and purchased a new HD and am in the process of restoring most of my data from a second HD I have on that machine just for backup purposes. I still have a couple of things that are not backed up and would like to try and recover. Is there a way to recover the label info? I don't know if the HD is dying or whether the filesystem/HD boot sector is messed up. If I go using /stand/sysinstall and try the partition option it tells me that the disk geometry is wrong, but I also got the same for the new HD I installed today. After pressing OK the HD lists the entire HD space as free. Any suggestions?
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