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From: -Vince- <vince@earth.gaianet.net> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: problem from installation Date: Thu, 3 Oct 1996 12:03:03 -0700 Organization: Concentric Internet Services Lines: 23 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.961003115628.2597E-100000@earth.gaianet.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: earth.gaianet.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.uoregon.edu!news.acsu.buffalo.edu!newsstand.cit.cornell.edu!newstand.syr.edu!chronos.syr.edu!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!news.texas.net!newsfeed.concentric.net!news-master!earth.gaianet.net!vince Greetings everyone, I need some help from a installtion problem... I have a Western Digital EIDE 1.6 GIG as the first drive and a Maxtor 2.0 GIG EIDE as the second drive.... My FreeBSD is using the entire drive on the Maxtor and booted fine before I installed the Western Digital using the FreeBSD setup disk... The problem is that during installation, I selected Novice and boot manager and it asks which devices and I specified wd0a and wd1a but I only did the partition on wd0a and FreeBSD newsfs and copied the stuff to wd0a but for some reason, it messed up wd1a. I didn't have the rest of the disks except the root, boot and fixit floppies so I was originally going to copy the data from wd1a to wd0a but when I tried to boot wd1a, I saw the bootstrap and it just hanged the machine afterwards.... Booted using the boot floppy and the fixit disk and mount /dev/wd1a gave me a Incorrect Super Block. I did a fsck and it said CANNOT READ BLOCK 16-28 or something and fdisk /dev/wd1a and it said invalid fdisk partition table. Is there anything I can do at all to fix this? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Vince vince@earth.gaianet.net GaiaNet Corporation - Unix Networking System Adminstrator