[H-GEN] openbsd question

[marco grigull]

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On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 03:08:28PM +1000, Igor Kromin wrote:
> hi,
> 
> i was doing an update from openbsd 2.9 to 3.1 and when it came to running
> MAKEDEV all, the computer hung on me, so after a while, I reset it, just to
> get a message saying Operating System Not Found. Is there any way to recover
> the partition information for the /home partition?

There are a few ways you can go about it, depending on what tools you have
 available.  If you have another machine, *bsd or linux, you could connect the
 drive into there and recover the information using native tools.  Or you 
 could try booting off the install disk (maybe someone else knows how to 
 specify alternative root device) or just boot it up and see if you can access
 the slice from the shell with mount. 
 
> When I use some tools that analyse partitions, it shows a primary OpenBSD
> partition which is about 2Gb (what it should be) and also it shows
> unallocated space of about 7Gb (as the /home would be). Does this look
> promising if I use parted to edit the partition table?

What sort of tool said that it was unallocated?

good luck
Marco

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