From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 2 16:40:26 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA10869 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 2 Apr 1997 16:40:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA10860 for ; Wed, 2 Apr 1997 16:40:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id QAA02100; Wed, 2 Apr 1997 16:40:07 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 2 Apr 1997 16:40:07 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: "Eporue.aCid.AiS" cc: support@freebsd.com Subject: Re: big problem.. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 2 Apr 1997, Eporue.aCid.AiS wrote: > > I hope you can help.. I think I may have toated my freebsd box. I was > working with some directions I got from some people at support@freebsd.org > to setup a readable dos dir from my dos partition. It seemed to be working, > anwyays.. I was tring to copy some files I had in my FTP dir to my dos dir > when I started to get invalid argument messages. Uh oh. :( When you mounted the DOS partition, you didn't by chance get the message: Warning: root is not a multiple of clustersize in length or something like that. You should have stopped immediately and not touched either partition. Unfortunately, you got bit by the bug. :( There isn't much we can do for you. You can try fetching the fixit floppy and rebuilding the disklabel, but if it hit the kernel then the damage may be fairly extensive. > want to loose the setup I had.. took awhile to get it to where I liked it > and everything was working.. I know; I hate that. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major