Hi, People, I have FreeBSD install on 80G disk that looked like this:
ad1s1 ~ 2.4G ad1s2 ~23.0G ad1s3 ~19.1G ad1s4 ~38.0G, FreeBSD partition, sliced like this: ------------------------ ad1s4a / (507630 1K-blocks) ad1s4b swap ad1s4d /var ad1s4e /tmp ad1s4f /usr First three partitions are former fat/ntfs that I emptied, transformed to FreeBSD's ufs2 and used as FreeBSD storage. I used boot0cfg and my boot menu looked like this: F1 DOS (although nothing were installed in F1-F3, just ufs2 data) F2 DOS F3 DOS F4 FreeBSD Today, however, I decided to try a small NetBSD install on small ad1s1, I thought I could do no harm if I tell it to install itself onto first partition. So I passed through install, carefully checked partition1 (on wd0 disk according to it) for mark 'new fs', and sliced it did like this: wd0a / (around 550M) ... wd0e /usr (total ~2,4M, as described above) and left all other options (BSD labels etc.) as defaults. NetBSD installed and booted, menu looked like this: F1 BSD F2 DOS F3 DOS F4 FreeBSD However, FreeBSD is now unbootable!!! Then I loaded FreeSBIE (FreeBSD 6.2 live CD), tried 'boot0cfg -B /dev/ad1' (also with '-d 0x80'), but no help! Then I realized that ad1s4 slices are lost. This means: A) from FreeSBIE, there is only /dev/ad1s4, no a,b,d,e,f. If I do this: FreeSBIE# mount /dev/ad1s4 /mnt/ufs.4 this is former / (ad1s4a) and is of its size (~507M). I can't reach other slices! However, it gives me hope that NetBSD's slices are also invisible, although working from within itself: FreeSBIE# mount /dev/ad1s1 /mnt/ufs.1 gives also small NetBSD's / (its wd0a), not /usr etc. B) From NetBSD: FreeBSD's ad1s2 -> NetBSD's wd0f (readable, data ok) FreeBSD's ad1s3 -> NetBSD's wd0g (readable, data ok) FreeBSD's ad1s4a -> NetBSD's wd0h (just /, 507M, readable) others (ad1s4 d-f), containing /usr/home are lost! Please help me to recover my FreeBSD system. If I lost my data (ok, I understand they are buried, not erased), please tell me that gently. :-( many thanks in advance Sergi M _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
