On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 09:19:11AM -0600, Patrick Hartling wrote the words in effect
of:
> I have a machine that is running -current from October 10, 2002. It had
> been running fine for about two weeks--up until I had to reboot it.
> When it came back up, one of my disks apparently lost its disklabel.
>
> Is there any way to recover a disklabel? If not, I'm willing to grovel
> the disk and try to reconstruct its disklabel (there is really only one
> partition on it that I need to get back, and its at the beginning of the
> disk), but disklabel(8) won't even let me try to make a new one. If I
> run 'disklabel -e da3s1', I get an error saying "ioctl DIOCGDINFO:
> Inappropriate ioctl for device". Running 'disklabel -r da3s1' gives a
> "bad magic pack number" error, which does not surprise me.
>
> This is a "dangerously dedicated" disk with a single BIOS partition
> containing four FreeBSD partitions. I have a second identical disk in
> the machine. fdisk(8) gives the same information for each, so I don't
> think the BIOS partition is messed up. Is there something obvious that
> I'm missing about how to fix this problem?
Hi there.
I am not sure if this is a 100% solution, but can you try using the
find-sb utility. You can run this utility as root, once you have
compiled it:
# cd /usr/src/tools/tools/find-sb
# make
# ./find-sb <device-name: e.g. /dev/ad0>
Hope that helps.
Cheers.
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Hiten Pandya ([EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED])
http://www.unixdaemons.com/~hiten/
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