clobbered boot block

Sun Jan 20 01:56:03 UTC 2013

I used dd to cover a whole new disk; bad idea.
I installed 9.1-R, and the install CD said all was OK.
Yet I was  unable to mount any of it.
fdisk seemed happy, and could read and write.
bsdlabel returned "unable to get correct path for ada0s1 (same for ada01)".

--  uname -a  --
FreeBSD tomato.local 9.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE #0: Tue. Jan 3
07:46:30 UTC 2012 root at farrell.cse buffalo.edu:
/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64

  Hearty thanks to all,  Chuck Bacon <crtb at cape.com>