fdisk partition / disklabel recovery (help!)

2006-06-13 Thread Eric Anderson
>From the subject, you probably already know my dilemma. After booting a linux livecd (I'll refrain from naming the distro), my laptop no longer has any partitions. Now, the drive was not newfs'ed with any other OS, so I believe only the boot loader and partitioning are messed up. I see an ffsre

Re: fdisk partition / disklabel recovery (help!)

2006-06-13 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting "Eric Anderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Tue, 13 Jun 2006 12:33:14 -0500 (CDT)): > >From the subject, you probably already know my dilemma. After booting a > linux livecd (I'll refrain from naming the distro), my laptop no longer > has any partitions. Now, the drive was not newfs'ed with an

Re: fdisk partition / disklabel recovery (help!)

2006-06-13 Thread Eric Anderson
Alexander Leidinger said: > Quoting "Eric Anderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Tue, 13 Jun 2006 12:33:14 > -0500 (CDT)): > >> >From the subject, you probably already know my dilemma. After booting >> a >> linux livecd (I'll refrain from naming the distro), my laptop no longer >> has any partitions. Now

Re: fdisk partition / disklabel recovery (help!)

2006-06-13 Thread Maxim Konovalov
[...] > Is there any additional ways I can find the partitioning scheme, or find > the bsdlabel's on the disk? Does anyone know of a command line (dd+some > tools/perl/etc) way to find the bsdlabels? ports/sysutils/scan_ffs/ src/tools/tools/find-sb/ > Once the bsdlabels are found, then what? R

Re: fdisk partition / disklabel recovery (help!)

2006-06-13 Thread Naram Qashat
t; To: Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2006 01:33 PM Subject: fdisk partition / disklabel recovery (help!) > >From the subject, you probably already know my dilemma. After booting a > linux livecd (I'll refrain from naming the distro), my laptop no longer > has any partitions. Now, the

Re: fdisk partition / disklabel recovery (help!)

2006-06-14 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting Eric Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (from Tue, 13 Jun 2006 16:02:33 -0500 (CDT)): Alexander Leidinger said: Quoting "Eric Anderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Tue, 13 Jun 2006 12:33:14 -0500 (CDT)): >From the subject, you probably already know my dilemma. After booting a linux livecd (I'll

Re: fdisk partition / disklabel recovery (help!)

2006-06-15 Thread Florent Thoumie
On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 23:54 -0400, Naram Qashat wrote: > You've also got the choice of using the program testdisk in > sysutils/testdisk to try to fix your problem. It helped me when I > accidently hosed the MBR and partition table on one of my drives. I second this (because it saved my life, not