Re: fdisk from fixit CD: geom not found
On Sunday 17 February 2008 23:55, Wojciech Puchar wrote: I'd still rather there wasn't an ``error'' message at all unless there's a genuine error: I'm planning for the case of an operator with limited skills doing a ``monkey see, monkey do'' restore (not trying to be rude, but monkey can do ifconfig, route and /etc/rc.d/sshd start then you do the rest Except this is a disaster recovery plan: it must not rely on me being available. I'm looking at a scenario in which the survivors of the disaster have bought replacement hardware, hired someone who's done a bit of Linux, and handed them a set of offsite backup tapes and a ring-binder. (I can get most sites tapes offsite by 60+km on a daily basis: if a disaster simultaneously takes out, for example, the city of Durban - at sea level, population 3.5 million - and Pietermaritzburg, 80km inland and 750 metres above sea level, I'm not sure restoring our backups is going to be the biggest worry.) Jonathan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
fdisk from fixit CD: geom not found
As part of our disaster recovery planning, I'm working up a bare-metal recovery sequence that can be followed by someone who's used Linux (easier to find here than a FreeBSD admin). My initial outline sequence was along the lines of: Boot install CD and choose Fixit 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 I'm tripping up on the first step, which although it appears to create the slice, throws a ``Geom not found'' message - which is potentially worrying to someone blindly following a recovery script. Is there a way to avoid this message, or would I be better off using the Configure option of sysinstall (and the W option to write the new slice table) before switching to Fixit mode to recover the disklabel (which is the next bit I need to test ``under lab conditions'')? Jonathan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fdisk from fixit CD: geom not found
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. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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. ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + [EMAIL PROTECTED] + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 6.* - 7.* + All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fdisk from fixit CD: geom not found
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. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fdisk from fixit CD: geom not found
On Sunday 17 February 2008 21:51, Wojciech Puchar wrote: Boot install CD and choose Fixit get live CD, it's better for this. To be honest, if I'm not using an install CD (which will do the job) I may as well look at making a custom recovery disk which just needs to be booted - but see below. 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 Well spotted. I did say I hadn't tested this bit yet! 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? Yes. as far as i remember i've got this message with bsdlabel -B, but i ignored it as everything worked fine. I'd still rather there wasn't an ``error'' message at all unless there's a genuine error: I'm planning for the case of an operator with limited skills doing a ``monkey see, monkey do'' restore (not trying to be rude, but experienced FreeBSD admins seem to be hard to come by here and I'd rather insult someone's intelligence than give them instructions which don't make sense without years of FreeBSD experience). Jonathan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fdisk from fixit CD: geom not found
is slice actually created? Yes. so it's all right. just ignore it. as far as i remember i've got this message with bsdlabel -B, but i ignored it as everything worked fine. I'd still rather there wasn't an ``error'' message at all unless there's a genuine error: I'm planning for the case of an operator with limited skills doing a ``monkey see, monkey do'' restore (not trying to be rude, but monkey can do ifconfig, route and /etc/rc.d/sshd start then you do the rest ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
