Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 02:33:54 +0100 (MET) From: Reinoud Koornstra <Reinoud.Koornstra@ibbnet.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: how to recover? Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.95.991222023256.4100I-100000@ux1.ibb.net>
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Can someone plz take a look at this problem? The problem is this: I installed freebsd on an empty second harddisk. I divided it into two partitions with slices in it. I putted the freebsd botmanager on the harddisk. Later i planted netbsd on the same second hd (ide). Then i started using the netbsd bootmanager.... This resulted in the unabling to boot freebsd anymore. Also not anymore from floppy. Now..... then i putted the freebsd bootmanager back on the disk and that resulted in being unable to boot netbsd as well. Freebsd still didnt boot. So this resulted in both os'ses not being able to boot. After that i checked the disk geometry and found it was wrong and changed the begins and end of the partitons. After that netbsd booted again Free still doesnt boot however. Netbsd and openbsd (which is on the first ide harddisk) both think that the freebsd partition start at sector 63 (which is normally the case by convention to leave the first track empty). However.... i aint sure if this is really the fact cause when i installed freebsd nothing else was on the disk. And i heared freebsd got two ways of dealing with the disk. One is the pc style way which would result in indeed a start from the first partition at sector 63, the other..... would be freebsd start at sector 0 even after the mbr and partition table... isnt it? Now what if freebsd choose that way by default? How can i be sure that is the case? Cause i didnt select pc style way when installing freebsd (as far as i can remember, its a time ago). I have some data on those freebsd slices which i want to recover. Perhaps it can be that the bootloader is broken or missing now? Anyway..... i would like to acces my data on the freebsd slices. Nothing is done with the data on those slices. Is there a way to mount some slices with a recovery disk or something? There has to be some way, cause i really cant imagine i am the first one with such a problem not being able to boot any more in freebsd. I cant mount the freebsd slices from net or opebsd cause they only allow 8 to be mounted at one time and i allrdy got those systems divided into more slices.... Do you know what i can do now to get my data from those two partitions (freebsd)? I am sure nothing has been written to those partitions. Hope to hear something. Bye, Reinoud. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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