From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 29 12:23: 5 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ethereal.backchat.co.za (ethereal.backchat.co.za [196.25.19.86]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5197715401 for ; Mon, 29 Nov 1999 12:22:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from natey@capetown.za.org) Received: from c1-ctn-76.dial-up.net ([196.34.157.76] helo=ethereal.natey.za.net) by ethereal.backchat.co.za with smtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 11sVVH-0005mw-00; Mon, 29 Nov 1999 20:26:25 +0200 Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19991129221632.00b3c3c0@capetown.za.org> X-Sender: natey@capetown.za.org (Unverified) X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1999 22:16:32 +0200 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, scm@school.za, bje@wcape.school.za From: Natey on IRC Subject: URGENT HELP!!!!! Partition Table vanished *zapped by rebooting server* Cc: goolam@cttc.wcape.school.za, louis@cttc.wcape.school.za Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi all, Is there any way to recover one's partition table. Basically what happened is that I rebooted my FreeBSD server and I got that "INVALID SYSTEM DISK" message, even though I have the following: 8.4Mb HDD - 4Gig MS-DOS Parition (For Samba Shares / Home Dirs) - 4Gig FreeBSD Partition (Development Partition) 650Mb HDD - 650Mb MS-DOS Partition (For Samba Shares / Home Dirs) I used to be able to boot into Win95/FreeBSD using F1 and F2 resp. but when I rebooted the machine this morning I got the "INVALID SYSTEM DISK" message. I created a Win95 bootdisk and did a fdisk /mbr so that I can at least boot up into Win95. Is there any way I can get access to the FreeBSD Partition so that I can get all my development source code? I need to get a copy of my CVS tree into Windowz so that I can reinstall my FreeBSD stuff without loosing the CVS respository. The last backup (.tar.gz of the CVS respos. I have is from the 24th November 1999 [which does not include all the stuff I worked on this weekend]). Normally the FreeBSD Boxen is running FreeBSD, except when I drag the boxxie along to clients or to LAN parties. I figured out a way a few years back, but alas I cannot remember it. I cannot even get the baddly created wallnut creak cdrom's "LIVE" cd to work. Regards Natey To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message