I have two hard drives in my system, a SCSI drive from which the OS runs, and a big IDE drive that I use for backups.
I recently converted the system from OpenBSD to Gentoo. I didn't "touch" the IDE drive during the install, except during grub configuration. Since it can be somewhat confusing to distinguish between SCSI and IDE drives in grub, I accidently ran the grub "setup" command on my IDE drive. Now it appears as though there are *no* partitions on the IDE drive (it used to have four FFS partitions). No partitions are reported at boot time, and none are shown when I print the partition table from fdisk. Plus, I have no /dev/hda[1-4] devices. What are the chances I ruined the partition table of the IDE drive while I was playing with grub? Is there anything else I can do to further diagnose the problem and/or get at the data on that drive? Thanks! Matt -- Matt Garman email at: http://raw-sewage.net/index.php?file=email -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
