Lost my partition table - can I recover?

Marc Nozell marc at nozell.com
Thu Aug 5 10:04:00 EDT 2004


On Thu, 2004-08-05 at 09:38, Scott Garman wrote:
> My situation: I have an HP server with two hot-swap SCSI drive bays.
> It's got a RAID controller in it, which has to "initialize" new drives
> before they can be recognized by the controller. It refers to them as
> "logical" drives. 
> 
> I have inadvertently deleted the logical drive on the original disk, and
> I can not boot to Linux anymore. I am certain that all that's happened
> is the RAID controller re-wrote a new partition table with no
> partitions. When I boot from a RHEL 3.0 CD in rescue mode, it sees the
> drive detected as /dev/cciss/c0d0, whereas before it was
> /dev/cciss/c0d0p1. 
> 

The /dev/cciss/c0d0 refers to the entire first disk (think /dev/sda),
while /dev/cciss/c0d0p1 (think /dev/sda1) refers to the first partition 
on the first disk.

Um, did you just trash your entire disk? 

-marc
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