From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 26 21:04:18 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D88A116AAD2 for ; Fri, 26 May 2006 21:04:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wmoran@collaborativefusion.com) Received: from mx00.pub.collaborativefusion.com (mx00.pub.collaborativefusion.com [206.210.89.199]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 109E043D73 for ; Fri, 26 May 2006 21:04:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wmoran@collaborativefusion.com) Received: from localhost (monrovll-cuda1-24-53-251-44.pittpa.adelphia.net [24.53.251.44]) (AUTH: LOGIN wmoran, TLS: TLSv1/SSLv3,256bits,AES256-SHA) by wingspan with esmtp; Fri, 26 May 2006 17:04:21 -0400 id 00056405.44776D55.0000E263 Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 17:04:13 -0400 From: Bill Moran To: "Sam Speranini" Message-Id: <20060526170413.58979fdb.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> In-Reply-To: References: Organization: Collaborative Fusion X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.6 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd6.1) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: polina_mnouskina@yahoo.com, greenwood.andy@gmail.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems booting operating system and with root password X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 21:04:22 -0000 "Sam Speranini" wrote: > Thank you for the quick response and I will try booting up in single mode > for the root password issue. > One of our main boxes at boot up comes up with the error message below and > goes no further. It seems like the kernel is missing or got corrupted. The > box ran fine till yesterday morning when we noticed it was at this stage. Is > there anything that can be done to recover. If this machine worked before, then _something_ has occurred to corrupt data on disk. Some possible reasons are breakin, operator error, or hardware failure. If you're not _sure_ this was caused by operator error, then you should be afraid: either your box was compromised or your hard drives are failing. In either of those scenerios, you need to rebuild the box, possibly after replacing hardware. Hopefully you have backups, if not, you may be forking out good money for a data recovery company to extract your data off a damaged hard drive. If it's a breakin, you might be able to boot the system off a live CD (such as FreeSBIE) and get your data off the drive before rebuilding. If it's a hardware failure, you can try the liveCD thing, but it's less likely to work. Good luck. > Press for BMC Setup within 5 sec..... > No /boot/loader > > FreeBSD /i386 boot > Default: 0:da(0,a)/kernel > boot: > No /Kernel > > FreeBSD /i386 boot > Default: 0:da(0,a)/kernel > boot: -- Bill Moran Two by two, hands of blue.