Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2013 12:34:33 -0600 From: Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com> To: Drew Tomlinson <drew@mykitchentable.net> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: ERROR - Cannot get GEOM tree Message-ID: <CA%2BtpaK3tfx1yg40PUnNzeQ99gLNcE8cabVGTQ8B3F=KSD=Qtew@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <BLU0-SMTP35174D50516A4FE5954B23AB3F60@phx.gbl> References: <BLU0-SMTP35174D50516A4FE5954B23AB3F60@phx.gbl>
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On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 12:24 PM, Drew Tomlinson <drew@mykitchentable.net>wrote: > I've been happily running FBSD on a HP e60 Netserver for the past 13 > years. It's been so reliable, I've tended to just forget about it. However > after a power outage, it will no longer boot. > > I've done some testing and got it booted with a 9.2 LiveCD. I think the > version of FBSD on this box is 6.4. It has two 9 GB SCSI drives that I had > striped using gstripe. I think one of those drives has died but would like > to confirm before giving up. > > I've tried rewriting the MBR to both disks using "fdisk -B -b /boot/boot0 > daX" but get this error: > > Cannot get GEOM tree: Illegal byte sequence > > I've also tried "gstripe list" but get the same error. > > My stripe is "/dev/stripe/data" so I tried mounting it with "mount > /dev/stripe/data /mnt/data". I get this error: > > mount: /dev/stripe/data: R/W mount of /usr denied. Filesystem is not clean > - run fsck.: Operation not permitted > > So I tried to run "fsck /dev/stripe/data". Another error: > > fsck: Could not determine filesystem type > > I suspect one or both members of my stripe are dead. Can anyone confirm? > Is there anything else I can check before giving up? > There should be related messages in dmesg and /var/log/messages. -- Adam
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