need hints to recover lost FreeBSD partition entries in MBR ...

2005-09-11 Thread Andreas Klemm
I unluckily lost the partition table of my 1st disc in a 2 disc system. Tip: avoid gag boot manager and don't do my mistakes ... Having a printout of the df command I was able to re-create all of my fat32 partitions on disc XP boot and 4x FAT32 in an extended part. Now I'm looking for

need hints to recover lost FreeBSD partition entries in MBR ...

2005-09-11 Thread Andreas Klemm
I unluckily lost the partition table of my 1st disc in a 2 disc system. Tip: avoid gag boot manager and don't do my mistakes ... Having a printout of the df command I was able to re-create all of my fat32 partitions on disc XP boot and 4x FAT32 in an extended part. Now I'm looking for

[SOLVED] Re: Forcing boot to seek for files on other parition then `a'

2005-09-11 Thread Daniel Gerzo
Hello hackers, Saturday, September 10, 2005, 11:43:15 PM, I wrote: Hello hackers, snip Ok, I will describe the main problem here; According to the boot(8) manual the automatic boot will attempt to load /boot/loader from partition `a'. But there's no such partition and I have

Re: setsockopt 228K fails with ERR#55 'No buffer space available'

2005-09-11 Thread Steven Hartland
Thanks dan but I already tried that and it doesn't work but maxsockbuf does. Really looking for the affects that altering that might have and if its a good idea. 256k send and receive buffers on a socket seem very large to me. Steve - Original Message - From: Dan Nelson [EMAIL

Re: syscons and SC_NO_CUTPASTE issue

2005-09-11 Thread Simon 'corecode' Schubert
On 08.09.2005, at 11:25, Mike Adewole wrote: I propose that: (d) the next release of the generic kernel should be compiled with SC_NO_CUTPASTE why? I find cut+paste really useful per default. besides, can't this be controlled with a sysctl? cheers simon -- Serve - BSD +++ RENT this

Re: how to handling read only cvs trees

2005-09-11 Thread Simon 'corecode' Schubert
On 07.09.2005, at 15:32, Gordon Bergling wrote: Has anyone a hint on how to handle this situation? you might want to look at development(7). Not sure if this is being used by many people though. cheers simon -- Serve - BSD +++ RENT this banner advert +++ASCII Ribbon /\ Work

Re: need hints to recover lost FreeBSD partition entries in MBR ...

2005-09-11 Thread Joe Koberg
You might want /usr/ports/sysutils/scan_ffs from the package description: scan_ffs(8) recovers accidential lost or deleted disklabels. ... This little program will take a raw disk device (which you might have to create) that covers the whole disk, and finds all probable UFS/FFS parti-

Re: need hints to recover lost FreeBSD partition entries in MBR ...

2005-09-11 Thread Andreas Klemm
On Sun, Sep 11, 2005 at 09:42:54AM -0500, Joe Koberg wrote: You might want /usr/ports/sysutils/scan_ffs from the package description: scan_ffs(8) recovers accidential lost or deleted disklabels. Thanks for the hint. It turns out for me that for some strange reason the FreeBSD Slice 4

Re: need hints to recover lost FreeBSD partition entries in MBR ...

2005-09-11 Thread Andreas Klemm
fdisk -u did the trick to interactively edit the partition table. Confusing was then, that the previous FreeBSD partitions /dev/ad4s3d and /dev/ad4s4d were not present anymore. I had to use /dev/ad4s3c and /dev/ad4s4. But now I luckily was able to mount my old filesystems. Am now in the

Re: Forcing boot to seek for files on other parition then `a'

2005-09-11 Thread Peter Kieser
Daniel, Who is this company? I would like to avoid them in the future. --Peter Daniel Gerzo wrote: Bon jour Peter, Sunday, September 11, 2005, 1:51:09 AM, you wrote: Why don't you just get them to reinstall the machine? A few dedicated server providers have done that to me (Having the

Re: need hints to recover lost FreeBSD partition entries in MBR ...

2005-09-11 Thread John-Mark Gurney
Andreas Klemm wrote this message on Sun, Sep 11, 2005 at 11:39 +0200: I unluckily lost the partition table of my 1st disc in a 2 disc system. Tip: avoid gag boot manager and don't do my mistakes ... Having a printout of the df command I was able to re-create all of my fat32 partitions on

Re: status of ufsj and gjournal

2005-09-11 Thread Eric Anderson
Brian Wilson wrote: On 9/9/05, Eric Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi list, I wonder whats the status of those summer of code projects. From gjournal we heard that it has been completed but then nothing happens, any further information about this? Is somebody