From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 14 16:33:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 208CA37B405 for ; Sun, 14 Oct 2001 16:33:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-a148.otenet.gr [212.205.215.148]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.11.5/8.11.5) with ESMTP id f9ENXQv17589; Mon, 15 Oct 2001 02:33:26 +0300 (EEST) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.11.6/8.11.6) id f9EN8Wo61625; Mon, 15 Oct 2001 02:08:33 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from charon@labs.gr) Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 02:08:31 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Rob Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I am desperate please help my hdd Message-ID: <20011015020830.A61548@hades.hell.gr> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.22.1i X-GPG-Fingerprint: C1EB 0653 DB8B A557 3829 00F9 D60F 941A 3186 03B6 X-URL: http://labs.gr/~charon/ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Rob wrote: > fsck /dev/ad1a which said this: You are probably looking in the wrong place for a partition table. Try this: # fdisk /dev/ad1 > ** /dev/ad1a > BAD SUPER BLOCK: VALUES IN SUPER BLOCK DISAGREE WITH THOSE IN FIRST > ALTERNATE > /dev/ad1a: INCOMPLETE LABEL: type 4.2BSD fsize 0, frag 0, cpg 0, size > 9809920 Are you using the disk in ``dangerously dedicated mode''? Otherwise your partition table of /dev/ad1 should show some slice, like /dev/ad1s1 and your BSD filesystems should have names like /dev/ad1s1a, /dev/ad1s1d, etc. What other disks are on your system? If this is your only disk, why is BSD on /dev/ad1 and not on /dev/ad0? -giorgos To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message