From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 16 6:22:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pioneernet.net (imail.pioneernet.net [208.240.196.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4990937BD34 for ; Thu, 16 Mar 2000 06:22:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chip@wiegand.org) Received: from wiegand.org [208.194.173.26] by pioneernet.net with ESMTP (SMTPD32-6.00) id AEDDCE7601D2; Thu, 16 Mar 2000 06:25:33 -0800 Message-ID: <38D0EE7A.BCCC320C@wiegand.org> Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 06:23:55 -0800 From: Chip X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re:Not booting up problem, just happened 'out of the blue' Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Dr. Brain" wrote: > Chip (chip@wiegand.org) wrote: > > > The other day I was using FBSD just fine, when I had to reboot into > > winblows to read a .rtf file from a friend. After rebooting again to get > > > > back to the proper OS I got the following failure messages: > > > > Loading /boot/defaults/loader.conf > > Unable to load Kernel: > > Aborted! > > | > > Hit Enter to boot immediately, or any other key for command prompt. > > Booting {Kernel}... > > Can't load 'Kernel' > > Type '?' for detailed commands, 'help' for more detailed help. > > disk3s1a:> > > > > The commands and 'help' don't help much. The familiar cd doesn't > > work, so I can't get into my saved-data directory. I then booted off > > the 2nd cd into the fix-it prompt, whatever it was called, but when I > > was finally able to mount the proper partition to access my saved-data > > directory, it was empty. In fact, all the programs I had loaded after > > installing fbsd were gone, the desktop settings were gone. Seems > > everything related to my user logon were gone. > > > > Now I have moved that drive to the secondary master position and added > > a new primary slave and installed a fresh fbsd. I can mount the bad > > disk, but am unable to find any of the files I desperately need. > > > > Is there any hope for me to get those files off that disk? > > You did remember to fsck the bad drive, right? Some data may > have shown up in a lost+found directory... > > -- > Eric Hodel - drbrain@segment7.net - http://segment7.net > > "If you understand what you're doing, you're not learning anything." > -- A. L. Yeah, though I still get the same errors, Is there one specific parameter I should use? I ran it without any parameters and I ran it with -y. I will check the lost+found directory, I hadn't checked that before, I guess because I didn't know what it's purpose was. Chip To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message