From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 23 23:49:36 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA05713 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 23 Apr 1998 23:49:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.actrix.gen.nz (root@mail.actrix.gen.nz [203.96.16.37]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA05669 for ; Thu, 23 Apr 1998 23:49:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andrew@squiz.co.nz) Received: from [203.96.56.186] (aniwa.actrix.gen.nz [203.96.56.186]) by mail.actrix.gen.nz (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id SAA00793; Fri, 24 Apr 1998 18:48:39 +1200 (NZST) X-Sender: squiz1@mail.actrix.gen.nz Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1998 18:50:55 +1200 To: Josh , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: andrew@squiz.co.nz (Andrew McNaughton) Subject: RE: AAARGH! failure to boot. Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >Hi. >I believe that you have a hard disk problem.... > >Disk 0x80 Cylinder 196394 Head 63 Sector 45 could well be >cactus. :-( > >Not sure where you can find further info. If it wont boot then... >You may try a floppy boot and fsck but I've never done it. Thanks. At least now i know what the error message is. I've booted up with boot.flp and gotten a shell with fixit.flp. --------------------------------------- Fixit# fsck -n /mnt2/dev/wd0s3 ** ?mnt2/dev/rwd0s3 (NO WRITE) CANNOT READ: BLK 16 CONTINUE? yes THE FOLLOWING DISK SECTORS COULD NOT BE READ: 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24 , 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, ioctl (GCINFO): Invalid argument /mnt2/dev/rwd0s3: can't read disk label Fixit# --------------------------------------- On the fsck man page i found: --------------------------------------- -b Use the block specified immediately after the flag as the super block for the filesystem. Block 32 is usually an alternate super block. --------------------------------------- "fsck -n -b 32 /mnt2/dev/wd0s3" got me zillions of errors then I tried it again and it said much the same as before, with sectors 32 through 47 beig unreadable. Perhaps someone can suggest how I should proceed? I'm not familiar with working with the file system at this level. I had hoped to have a little longer before having to learn it. I suggest the above means my disk drive is clobbering more of its data as I go, but I don't know much about this sort of stuff, and I'd like a more qualified opinion on this. Bit of a disaster really. CD writer just purchased for backups, but not set up yet. New server due on monday and all my work about to be transferred across. Someone knowledgeable might just be able to save me a months work here. Andrew DISCLAIMER: The Entire Physical Universe, Including Andrew McNaughton This Message, May One Day Collapse Back into an ++64 4 389 6891 Infinitesimally Small Space. Should Another Universe andrew@squiz.co.nz Subsequently Re-emerge, the Validity of Statements http://www.squiz.co.nz in This Message Cannot Be Guaranteed. http://www.newsroom.co.nz To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message