Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 08:05:51 +0800 From: Erich Dollansky <erich@alogt.com> To: gahn via freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: boot section corruption Message-ID: <20140710080551.0365d976@X220.alogt.com> In-Reply-To: <1404921524.5512.YahooMailNeo@web122303.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> References: <1404921524.5512.YahooMailNeo@web122303.mail.ne1.yahoo.com>
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Hi, On Wed, 9 Jul 2014 08:58:44 -0700 gahn via freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> wrote: > i got puzzled when sometime the freebsd either failed to=A0 mount a > slice, gets into mountroot> prompt or even worse, corrupted the whole > boot section and gets into db> mode.besides the recovery procedures, > i am more interested in knowing how those scenarios might happen and > what we can do to prevent them to happen. >=20 this happens main for two reasons. When starting from a USB device and the device is too slow to react in time or when you have a serious hardware problem. What should FreeBSD do in these cases? Erich
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