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From: Michael White <mdwhite@ucdavis.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: file system HELP HELP HELP
Date: Sun, 14 Jul 1996 21:08:53 -0700
Organization: University of California, Davis
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References: <31E6C1F4.6FB1@ucdavis.edu> <4s86ok$n33@uriah.heep.sax.de> <4s8o0d$3gb@news.cs.tu-berlin.de>
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To: "Martin v.Loewis" <loewis@cs.tu-berlin.de>
Martin v.Loewis wrote:
>
> In article <4s86ok$n33@uriah.heep.sax.de>,
> J Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> wrote:
> >Your message looks rather confusing, and even after reading thrice, i
> >still don't know which data are lost, and how you're intending to
> >recover them.
>
> As far as I understand, he reformatted the partition that contained the
> user home directories, while leaving the system partition (/,swap,/usr)
> intact. He has a backup of the user homes, but non of the system files.
>
> Now the system refuses to boot. I would be interested to learn how far
> it boots, maybe it needs something from the now empty volume. If my
> understanding is correct, no re-installation should be necessary.
>
> Regards,
> Martin
Yes, at least that is what I thought I did. As to how far I get, in the
boot process, it is nowhere. I had my FreeBSD disk as the second drive,
so the bootmanager is supposed to hand off to the second drive. At the
prompt (F1 for DOS, F5 for Disk 2) I hit F5 and it can't even find the
boot manager (and the DOS program for installing the bootmanager does
not
see the second drive). Like I said previously, I was able to use the
install disk to look at the drive and it looks like there are no
partitions
anymore. Just one big empty disk.
--
- Mike
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