Subject: Re: I mangled my root drive's disklabel. I need advice!
To: None <netbsd-help@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Christos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 05/11/1998 22:45:00
In article <199805081608.JAA18762@theory-lab2.Stanford.EDU> Robert Kennedy <robert@cs.stanford.edu> writes:
>Can anyone help me with advice on how to do this? You can assume I
>know essentially nothing other than what this message implies I know.
>

Try scanning the disk for the ffs magic number every sector
magic = 0x011954. Have the program print the sectors that it finds that,
and then attempt to mount this. The tricky thing is to find the size of
the partition...

christos