From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Mar 13 17:43:37 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id RAA12529 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 13 Mar 1996 17:43:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from ibp.ibp.fr (ibp.ibp.fr [132.227.60.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA12502 for ; Wed, 13 Mar 1996 17:43:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from blaise.ibp.fr (blaise.ibp.fr [132.227.60.1]) by ibp.ibp.fr (8.6.12/jtpda-5.0) with ESMTP id CAA20110 ; Thu, 14 Mar 1996 02:43:27 +0100 Received: from (uucp@localhost) by blaise.ibp.fr (8.6.12/jtpda-5.0) with UUCP id CAA21294 ; Thu, 14 Mar 1996 02:43:26 +0100 Received: (uucp@localhost) by fasterix.frmug.fr.net (8.6.11/fasterix-941011) with UUCP id CAA05606; Thu, 14 Mar 1996 02:29:57 +0100 Received: (from regnauld@localhost) by tetard.frmug.fr.net (8.7.4/8.7.3/tetard-uucp-2.7) id BAA11981; Thu, 14 Mar 1996 01:18:06 +0100 (MET) From: Philippe Regnauld Message-Id: <199603140018.BAA11981@tetard.frmug.fr.net> Subject: Re: Clobbered partititon table .. :-( To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, hackers@freebsd.org (hackers) Date: Thu, 14 Mar 1996 01:18:04 +0100 (MET) In-Reply-To: <199603112226.XAA00383@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Mar 11, 96 11:26:19 pm X-rene: Tu dois pas les avoir perdues, normalement. X-wing-fighter: et puis X-men, X-open, X-ta-mere... X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk J Wunsch écrit / writes: > > As michael butler wrote: > > > > How does one recover from the clobbered partition table that no longer > > exists after you try to install another drive with the 2.1 install disk ? > > By writing down the figures before clobbering it. Ahem -- I've had a bit of a run-in with 'clobbered partition tables' lately. Was related to the fact that I'd repartitioned my disk with swap at offset 0. First round: the first system crash dumped core... and wiped out disklabel, booteasy :-/ So I rewrite the disklabel. Second round: same story. But it was a bit more evil: my drive acted like it had bad sectors (and I mean bad, people): 2.1.0 Sysinstall's DISKLABEL utility gave me: Can't write sectors 0, 1, 2, ... 32 I had to partition a spare disk with a backup of / on tape, and use disklabel directly from shell -- THEN it worked... I'm still wondering about this one -- BTW it would be NICE to tell new users (like, somewhere in the Sysinstall) that putting swap at offset 0 is Bad For You (and insist heavily on it) until the bug's been fixed. -- Phil -- - [ regnauld@tetard.frmug.fr.net / +48.8N+2.3E / +33 1 4507 9391 / Sol 3 ] - - [ regnauld@freenix.fr / FreeBSD 2.x / ] - "Le schtroumpf est à l'homme ce que le bleu est au billard" - F.Berjon