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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au!aggedor.rmit.EDU.AU!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!uwm.edu!spool.mu.edu!olivea!charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu!shawnb 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 Lines: 25 Message-ID: <3eij9u$sbh@charnel.ecst.CSUChico.EDU> NNTP-Posting-Host: hairball.ecst.csuchico.edu 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