Date: Thu, 14 Mar 1996 09:36:30 -0800 (PST) From: "Eric J. Schwertfeger" <ejs@bfd.com> To: Philippe Regnauld <regnauld@tetard.frmug.fr.net> Cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, hackers <hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Clobbered partititon table .. :-( Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960314093121.4455A-100000@harlie.bfd.com> In-Reply-To: <199603140018.BAA11981@tetard.frmug.fr.net>
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On Thu, 14 Mar 1996, Philippe Regnauld wrote: > J Wunsch =E9crit / writes: > >=20 > > As michael butler wrote: > > >=20 > > > How does one recover from the clobbered partition table that no longe= r > > > exists after you try to install another drive with the 2.1 install di= sk ? > >=20 > > By writing down the figures before clobbering it. >=20 > =09Ahem -- I've had a bit of a run-in with 'clobbered partition > =09tables' lately. Was related to the fact that I'd repartitioned my > =09disk with swap at offset 0. =20 Is it a problem to have your swap as the first partition? I've always=20 put it there since that's the fastest part of the disk. If this is a=20 problem, that could explain why I lost our web server yesterday, and why=20 the SCSI system stopped working when I upgraded to 2.1 (you don't want to= =20 know what kind of day it was, trust me).
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