I spaced on backing up my encryption key, and I tried to upgrade to FreeNAS 9.3 from ~9.1.4 (I think?). First, I tried using the GUI upgrade, but it got stuck in a boot loop with an error that I don't remember.
Then, I did a dd on the installer ISO to the flash drive.
Well, the install didn't work on that flash drive (some permissions error), so I ended up putting FreeNAS 9.3 on a separate flash drive.
It was about this time that I remembered that I had to get an encryption key off of the original 9.1.x install, but I had already used Win32DiskImager to write to the drive. So the partition table was toast.
What I'm hoping is that the partition described here is still in tact.
I have some experience digging through binary, so, if anyone can tell me anything about this partition (i.e. what format to look for and any signatures that might be consistent), that would be awesome.
I don't think I put a passphrase on it, if there was a passphrase, wouldn't I have had to type that password in to unlock the RAIDZ array upon boot?
Testdisk does something interesting when I run it on this disk. It finds this early on, but later erases it from the results. I'm thinking I might dig here first (though this will probably just end up being the ISO that I wrote to disk with Win32DiskImager.)
FreeBSD 120 41 1 120 40 63 0
Thanks!
-- Henry
Then, I did a dd on the installer ISO to the flash drive.
Well, the install didn't work on that flash drive (some permissions error), so I ended up putting FreeNAS 9.3 on a separate flash drive.
It was about this time that I remembered that I had to get an encryption key off of the original 9.1.x install, but I had already used Win32DiskImager to write to the drive. So the partition table was toast.
What I'm hoping is that the partition described here is still in tact.
I have some experience digging through binary, so, if anyone can tell me anything about this partition (i.e. what format to look for and any signatures that might be consistent), that would be awesome.
I don't think I put a passphrase on it, if there was a passphrase, wouldn't I have had to type that password in to unlock the RAIDZ array upon boot?
Testdisk does something interesting when I run it on this disk. It finds this early on, but later erases it from the results. I'm thinking I might dig here first (though this will probably just end up being the ISO that I wrote to disk with Win32DiskImager.)
FreeBSD 120 41 1 120 40 63 0
Thanks!
-- Henry