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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!nntp.coast.net!news-res.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!news.nap.net!news.wwa.com!news.ucdavis.edu!usenet 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 Lines: 42 Message-ID: <31E9C455.3CC4@ucdavis.edu> References: <31E6C1F4.6FB1@ucdavis.edu> <4s86ok$n33@uriah.heep.sax.de> <4s8o0d$3gb@news.cs.tu-berlin.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: mujibur.engr.ucdavis.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.01 (X11; I; HP-UX B.10.01 9000/712) To: "Martin v.Loewis" <loewis@cs.tu-berlin.de> Martin v.Loewis wrote: > > In article <4s86ok$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 ======================================================================== | | | _ | Michael D. White _______|/V\|_______ University of California, Davis X------------[_\(.)/_]------------X Dept. of Mechanical & Aeronautical Engineering /o`~|~`o\ white@halfdome.engr.ucdavis.edu O H O http://www.engr.ucdavis.edu/~mdwhite http://www-mae.engr.ucdavis.edu/CFD/white ========================================================================