Date: Wed, 4 Aug 1999 07:34:55 -0500 From: "J. Whitson Linder" <WLinder1@home.com> To: "'FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" <FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Lost Boot Sector Message-ID: <01BEDE4B.D956A400.WLinder1@home.com>
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Greetings! A recent power outage prompted me to shut down my FreeBSD server before my UPS ran out of juice. I issued the "shutdown -h now" command and waited until everything was halted...then I cut the power. After power was restored, I began to reboot my systems. My server, however, halted at the boot prompt with the following error: Disk error 0x4 (lba=0x2bff) Invalid format >>FreeBSD/i386 BOOT Default: 0:wd(0,a)/kernel boot: I can type a "?" and get a root listing, but none of my kernels seem to work...not even the two backup "safe" kernels I keep just in case. The weird thing is, my custom kernels aren't listed. I have read through about 3000 posts on similar subjects, but none of those ideas seems to work for me. I haven't upgraded or anything recently. This is a virgin install of FreeBSD 3.1-stable. Disklabel reports that my original partitions and slices are the same as ever (this is a "dangerously dedicated" install). "/boot/loader" gives me the same error as above. I tried booting from floppies and mounting my old partitions, but didn't have any luck. I don't mind reinstalling the OS...I just would like to get the info from /etc and my user homes. Anyone have any ideas? J. Whitson Linder WLinder1@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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