Date: Wed, 2 Oct 96 18:30:43 -0400 From: John Soward <soward@neworder.cc.uky.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Recover disklabel Message-ID: <199610022230.SAA14936@neworder.cc.uky.edu>
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I've got a 1G seagate IDE which used to have FreeBSD on it (2.1.5). In fact I hope it still does, but I just seem to have misplaced it...after fighting with F? for a while I loaded a fixit floppy, and tried fdisk and disklabel, fdisk looked okay, but disklabel complained about bad magic and was unable to read the label. Since then I've tried to "re-create" a label by paritioning the drive and labeling it, but asking sysinstall not to make the filesystems...I was pretty sure I just took the defaults (A), but I actually installed with 2.2SNAP (may), and retro-fitted back to 2.1.5R by supping stable and doing a make world...so perhaps things have gotten changed concerning the default partition...I bet if I could just find the first one... Anyone have any ideas -- of course there's some data on there that I "was just about to back up".... thanx, --- John Soward <a href="http://neworder.cc.uky.edu/">JpS</a>; Systems Programmer 'The Midnight sun will burn you up.' University of Kentucky (NeXT and MIME mail OK) -R. Smith
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