From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 1 12:17:31 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA18119 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 1 Jan 1999 12:17:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gaylord.async.vt.edu (gaylord.async.vt.edu [128.173.18.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA18112 for ; Fri, 1 Jan 1999 12:17:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gaylord@gaylord.async.vt.edu) Received: (from gaylord@localhost) by gaylord.async.vt.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) id PAA00445 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 1 Jan 1999 15:16:03 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from gaylord) From: Clark Gaylord Message-Id: <199901012016.PAA00445@gaylord.async.vt.edu> Subject: installing boot blocks, 3.0 current To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1999 15:16:02 -0500 (EST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I would like to update my boot blocks on my IDE (probably a Western Digital) /dev/wd0, but apparently my disklabel is not good. If I try disklabel -B -b /boot/boot1 -s /boot/boot2 /dev/rwd0 I get disklabel: bad pack magic number (label is damaged, or pack is unlabeled) Can I get a proper disklabel on the disk without hosing the filesystems? (I do have a tar backup from last night, but I'd like to avoid using it.) Many thanks. Clark Gaylord cgaylord@vt.edu P.S. Please respond with e-mail; I track -current, but not -questions. P.P.S. This is 3.0-current, cvsup'ed nightly (I just did a make world this AM). I also made a boot floppy and test kernel, and that loaded correctly (up to panic: no init, of course ;-) P.P.P.S. Some info from the system: df -k: Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/wd0s1a 37663 24452 10198 71% / /dev/wd0s1e 181063 131951 34627 79% /usr procfs 4 4 0 100% /proc kernfs 1 1 0 100% /kern /dev/sd0e 476626 412963 25533 94% /usr/local /dev/wd1h 160625 83916 63859 57% /home /dev/sd1h 1025615 940016 3550 100% /big disklabel /dev/wd0: # /dev/wd0: type: unknown disk: amnesiac label: fictitious flags: bytes/sector: 512 sectors/track: 55 tracks/cylinder: 12 sectors/cylinder: 660 cylinders: 1010 sectors/unit: 666600 rpm: 3600 interleave: 1 trackskew: 0 cylinderskew: 0 headswitch: 0 # milliseconds track-to-track seek: 0 # milliseconds drivedata: 0 8 partitions: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] c: 666600 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 1009) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message