Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 22:29:50 -0800 From: Glenn Dawson <glenn@antimatter.net> To: "Andrew Pantyukhin" <infofarmer@gmail.com>, "Michael S" <msherman77@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: need help Message-ID: <7.0.1.0.2.20060316222801.05f2ccc8@antimatter.net> In-Reply-To: <cb5206420603162146v3dbfbbd4j30348f96e07e530d@mail.gmail.co m> References: <d5f57b9c0603161433y44e2073ct5712377b617e0796@mail.gmail.com> <cb5206420603162146v3dbfbbd4j30348f96e07e530d@mail.gmail.com>
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At 09:46 PM 3/16/2006, Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: >On 3/17/06, Michael S <msherman77@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi. > > > > I am relatively new to FreeBSD, have been running it since 5.1. > > Nothing like what I experienced today had happened previously. > > My machine crashed and I wasn't able to boot it back, the boot > > processes wasn't able to find the kernel. I then booted with the 6.0 > > Release CD and went into the FIXIT mode. > > I wasn't able to mount /dev/ad0s1a (I have an IDE drive), I then tried > > fsck_ffs /dev/ad0s1 and the message was: > > CAN'T READ BLCK 128 > > ioctl Inappropriate ioctl for device > > fsck_ffs: /dev/ad0s1 can't read disk label. > > > > That machine was 6.0 p-1 (patched once) with slightly modified kernel. > > > > Is my data lost? Can anything be done still? > > Any help would be appreciated. > > > > Michael > > _______________________________________________ > > 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" > > > >The bad news is that at least some data is lost and the >HDD is toast. You might also want to try and mount the >partitions read-only (this way they don't have to be clean). >Some data might still be accessible. I think he would have much greater success by fsck'ing /dev/ad0s1a instead of /dev/ad0s1. (note the lack of an 'a' in the device name in the output above. -Glenn >_______________________________________________ >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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