Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2009 13:17:38 -0700 From: Modulok <modulok@gmail.com> To: Tom Worster <fsb@thefsb.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: recovering data from this disk Message-ID: <64c038660912041217m56d2aad1xedf38a9bf4d170fe@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <C73ECBA3.144E9%fsb@thefsb.org> References: <20091204185157.GA4904@alucard.int.rhavenn.net> <C73ECBA3.144E9%fsb@thefsb.org>
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You might try freesbie. It's not a fixit shell, it's a full FreeBSD on a live CD. I've had better luck with it in the past than the fixit shell. Worth a shot. -Modulok- On 12/4/09, Tom Worster <fsb@thefsb.org> wrote: > On 12/4/09 1:51 PM, "Henrik Hudson" <lists@rhavenn.net> wrote: > >> On Fri, 04 Dec 2009, Tom Worster wrote: >> >>> any suggestions how to recover data from either of the mirrored disks >>> that i >>> can't get to boot? the situation is described below. >> >> If they were indeed mirrored then try a FreeBSD live distro boot CD >> and boot into that then just mount one of the disk partitions that >> you need. > > thanks, henrik, > > but i wasn't able to make the live fs fixit shell work. i get an error > message when i try to start the live fs shell: "ldconfig could not create > the ld.so hints file" and all commands fail to work. > > tom > > >>> >>> (i'm assuming, given the silence on this, that making the system work >>> after >>> the freebsd-update is a lost cause.) >>> >>> >>> On 12/3/09 11:14 AM, "Tom Worster" <fsb@thefsb.org> wrote: >>> >>>> after running freebsd-update -r 8.0-RELEASE upgrade my system won't >>>> boot. it >>>> gets stuck on mountroot and i can't find the magic word it wants. >>>> >>>> the system used to have two sata drives /dev/ad4 and ad6. they were >>>> partitioned and sliced using the deafaults that sysinstall suggested. >>>> >>>> at the boot prompt, lsdev says: >>>> >>>> disk devices >>>> disk0: BIOS drive C: >>>> disk0s1a: FFS >>>> disk0s1b: swap >>>> disk0s1d: FFS >>>> disk0s1e: FFS >>>> disk0s1f: FFS >>>> disk1: BIOS drive D: >>>> disk1s1a: FFS >>>> disk1s1b: swap >>>> disk1s1d: FFS >>>> disk1s1e: FFS >>>> disk1s1f: FFS >>>> >>>> which looks right, although i'm not familiar with the "disk" >>>> nomenclature. >>>> >>>> entering ? at mountroot mentions ad4 and ad6. >>>> >>>> geom_mirror was being used. >>>> >>>> i've tried saying "load geom_mirror" and/or "enable-module geom_mirror" >>>> at >>>> the >>>> boot prompt. neither made any difference. >>>> >>>> nothing i've said to mountroot works: >>>> >>>> ufs:/dev/ad4s1a >>>> ufs:/dev/ad6s1a >>>> ufs:/dev/mirror/gm0s1a >>>> ufs:/dev/disk0s1a >>>> ufs:/dev/disk1s1a >>>> >>>> does anyone know the magic word? i'd be very grateful. >>>> >>>> tom >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >>> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >>> To unsubscribe, send any mail to >>> "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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