Wojciech Puchar wrote:
Boot install CD and choose Fixit
get live CD, it's better for this.
fdisk -BI
extract saved disklabel from tape and install with bsdlabel
Initialise filesystems using stored output of dumpfs -m (from tape)
Restore filesystems from tape
good you have such i plan. this is rare case today;)
I'm tripping up on the first step, which although it appears to
create the
you forgot to bsdlabel -B ad0a (or da0s1a whatever you have) after
restore
slice, throws a ``Geom not found'' message - which is potentially
worrying to
someone blindly following a recovery script.
no idea, i don't use slices (just disklabel)
maybe kernel module not loaded?
is slice actually created?
as far as i remember i've got this message with bsdlabel -B, but i
ignored it as everything worked fine.
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Aloha,
I get that response with many of the large hard drives I install. I dont
think it means anything because once you just carry on FreeBSD doesn't
seem to care. I think somebody posted that it was either bios or drive
size related at one time.
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