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From: shawnb@ecst.csuchico.edu (Shawn Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: HELP! I hosed my FreeBSD system!
Date: 6 Jan 1995 05:09:18 GMT
Organization: California State University, Chico
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Message-ID: <3eij9u$sbh@charnel.ecst.CSUChico.EDU>
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Well today I really screwed up my FreeBSD 2.0 system.  While in the
process of trying to remove DOS from my harddisk (which is an honorable
thing IMHO) I think I screwed up the disklabel attempting to write
the boot code to the disk.

As a result there is a discrepancy (I think) between what FDISK and
disklabel tell me about the disk.  

Disklabel (from the 2.0 boot floppy) shows my entire FreeBSD slice
as being partition f, and what was my DOS partition as being partition
e.  Both are listed as 4.2 filesystems.

FDISK claims that there is 184 megs alloted to FreeBSD and 50 megs
alloted to DOS (which is how I had it set up.)

In the 184 megs alloted to FreeBSD I had three partitions, /, /usr, 
and swap.  I'm hoping that they're still in there somewhere, as I 
have some irreplacable data.  UGH.

Does anyone have any ideas how to rectify this?  My brain is about 
at capacity right now.

Thanks in advance.

Shawn