Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2006 10:51:22 -0700 From: Gary Kline <kline@sage.thought.org> To: Atom Powers <atom.powers@gmail.com> Cc: Gary Kline <kline@sage.thought.org>, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: System down, won't come up (was: Oh, no....) Message-ID: <20060902175122.GA4394@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <df9ac37c0609020833p33115cf2icbd25f38289d167@mail.gmail.com> References: <20060902033024.GA68680@thought.org> <20060902040551.GI25190@wantadilla.lemis.com> <df9ac37c0609020833p33115cf2icbd25f38289d167@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sat, Sep 02, 2006 at 08:33:44AM -0700, Atom Powers wrote: > On 9/1/06, Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@freebsd.org> wrote: > >On Friday, 1 September 2006 at 20:30:24 -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > >> > >> Well, gang, for about the only time in ten or eleven years, my > >> FreeBSD has kernel crashed. The kernel err is 18 I believe a > >> int divide by zero. I backup most stuff regularly but still have > >> several megs of data files. Can I fix this with a fixit disk? > >> Or is all hope lost? > > If it's only the data you want, try a FreeSBIE boot disk. That will > give you access to the file system/network, so you can recover your > data. > From magnesium.net I followed up to-list that this 2001 server had n floppy. So, until I can beg a favor, and swap in a floppy, I'm totally wedged. --By the way, it's time to have a giveaway, so anyone in the metro Seattle area, if you areinterested in some seriously heavy-duty but slow HP Kayaks, drop a line. Greg: I was able to get to the boot screen and hit "4" [?] or "5"--whatever thr alt menu is. I typed boot /boot/kernel.old and for a few secs thought that would work. But upon hitting return/[Ehter], things reset. And-or back to the original fatal trap 18. This may have been a FS err because I was pushing the box pretty hard. I was doing a portsupgrade and installing/reinstalling lots of stuff. Whenever I can get somebody to temp swap in a floppy I'll try FreeSBIE. MOst of my data is public or personal junk, but to my amazement, my last backups of taoEtc.tgz was (*cringe*) late '01. gary > -- > -- > Perfection is just a word I use occasionally with mustard. > --Atom Powers-- -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix
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