Oh, after I find my info, I have netbsd install floppies made. What is a
good way of actually entering in the info? (This is the point where I
screwed up, so I would appreciate suggestions.)

On Tue, 19 Aug 2003, Daniel Carosone wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 09:47:11PM -0700, Hisashi T Fujinaka wrote:
> > OK, so is there some way of mounting the entire disk and searching for
> > /var/backup to regenerate my mbr or am I totally hosed this time?
>
> dd the disk and search for the text of the actual file, don't bother
> trying to interpret ffs structures, just look for the disk block
> beginning with something like:
>
> Disk: /dev/rwd0d
> NetBSD disklabel disk geometry:
> cylinders: 16383 heads: 16 sectors/track: 63 (1008 sectors/cylinder)
>
> (that's my /var/backups/work/fdisk.wd0)
>
> you will also probably want disklabel.wd0, search for a sector starting with:
>
> # /dev/rwd0d:
> type: ESDI
> disk: <your disk type, or just end there>
>
> Good luck
> --
> Dan.
>

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