On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 09:19:11AM -0600, Patrick Hartling wrote:
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
If you're running -current, you might see if you have the source for
"/usr/src/tools/tools/find-sb". This is a simple program which might
help get some of the missing information. You would have to compile
it, as the program is not automatically built and installed.
> 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?
I don't know why you'd get this error though. I had to do something
like this just this past weekend, and disklabel pretty much worked
for me. You may be this problem due to having a "dangerously dedicated"
hard disk. (note that I'm running a more recent snapshot of -current,
so maybe my system has some changes that yours is missing).
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