From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 10 12:32:18 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA11215 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 10 Nov 1998 12:32:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dfw-ix10.ix.netcom.com (dfw-ix10.ix.netcom.com [206.214.98.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA11209 for ; Tue, 10 Nov 1998 12:32:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from alex@montenegro.com) Received: (from smap@localhost) by dfw-ix10.ix.netcom.com (8.8.4/8.8.4) id OAA21619 for ; Tue, 10 Nov 1998 14:31:50 -0600 (CST) Received: from lbx-ca50-95.ix.netcom.com(205.184.165.95) by dfw-ix10.ix.netcom.com via smap (V1.3) id rma021580; Tue Nov 10 14:31:20 1998 Message-ID: <005201be0ce8$a7d2ab20$5c265dcf@obradoa.fnic.net> Reply-To: "Aleksandar Obradovic" From: "Aleksandar Obradovic" To: Subject: Problems with the drive Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 12:28:15 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3115.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I used to have perfectly fine 2.2.6 system running on one SCSI2 drive with partitions sd0s1 DOS sd0s2a / sd0s2b /SWAP sd0s2e /VAR sd0s2f /USR I had boot set up so it gives me options F1...DOS F2...FreeBSD My bios was set up to boot from SCSI first and then from C. Then I needed to add WinNT to the box (business requirement, not a personal preference) so I slapped in another drive trying not to touch my FreeBSD drive. I put in 4 gig IDE drive, configured BIOS to boot from C first and then SCSI, and installed NT fine. However, when I switched back the BIOS to boot from SCSI first in order to boot my FreeBSD, I got the old menu F1...DOS F2...FreeBSD but this time FreeBSD would not boot any more, it would just hang. I tried to go into fixit, and do fsck. The command fsck -y /dev/sd0s2 performs some cleanup and exits with the message /: write failed, file system is full Segmentation fault I wanted to mount my partition sd0s2a so I can check out my config files and fstab, but I do not have sd0s2a entry in my /dev/ directory while I am running fixit. All I have is sd0s1 sd0s2 ... sd0s4, and rsd0s1, ..rsd0s4. When I mount sd0s1 to mnt mount -f /dev/sd0s1 /mnt and do cd /mnt all I see is lost+found directory that has many many #9999 entries, where 9 can be any digit. My questions are 1. did I loose everything? 2. Can I somehow restore this drive and my old settings 3. If not, is there any way to recover data from the non-bootable FreeBSD drive. All I need from this disk are my data files, so if I reinstall FreeBSD on to the different drive, will I be able to recover data from this current drive? I would really appreciate some answers, Alex To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message