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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD killed my drive
Date: Fri, 10 May 1996 20:27:02 -0700
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Raven wrote:
]
] I just tried to install FreeBSD on my second HardDrive (2gig)
] and FreeBSD killed my first hard drive. Now the geometry is
] all screwed up.
]
] I'm really pissed off. NeXTStep, Solaris, and my DOS partition
] are toasty critters with the onslaught of the geometry ignorant
] FreeBSD.
Or the onslaught of the "install notes" ignorant FreeBSD installer?
] Apparently, FreeBSD is not compatable with the BIOS translation
] of ALL Adaptec SCSI cards. Everything else seems to work,
] including Linux. I guess FreeBSD isn't all it's crack up to be.
]
] Excuse the above, but I'm quite pissed right now, proabaly
] because of a moronic bug in the retarded Label utility.
Nope. It's a bug in the "install boot selector", which the
install notes warn you not to do on the second drive, because
it's a known bug.
Known bugs are why people should read install notes.
What happened was FreeBSD wrote the boot track on the first
disk instead of the boot track on the second when it installed
the boot manager.
You can recover this by rewriting the MBR on the first drive
with whatever MBR was there before. All of your data on the
first drive is intact, unmodified, and waiting for you to
fix the MBR.
You will need to mark whatever partition you wanted to be
default active, since FreeBSD tried to mark the FreeBSD
partition active (which means no partitions are marked active
because you installed FreeBSD on the second drive.
Next time, read the installation notes -- it will save you
some grief.
Terry Lambert
terry@lambert.org
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