Date: Tue, 3 Jun 1997 10:41:55 +0200 From: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> To: "Majmundar, Sam" <smajmund@visa.com> Cc: "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Can't boot - even fixit did not help !!! Message-ID: <19970603104155.64715@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de> In-Reply-To: <c=US%a=_%p=Visa%l=SW720_X001-970602174144Z-32947@msmailgw2.visa.com>; from Majmundar, Sam on Mon, Jun 02, 1997 at 10:41:44AM -0700 References: <c=US%a=_%p=Visa%l=SW720_X001-970602174144Z-32947@msmailgw2.visa.com>
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On Mon, Jun 02, 1997 at 10:41:44AM -0700, Majmundar, Sam wrote: > Hi! > > I have a duel boot Pentium with FreeBSD on 3G hard disk on SCSI id 1 and > NT on another 3G hard disk on SCSI ID 0. I usually changed primary boot > device and it worked fine for almost 6 months. Suddenly I can not boot > off How does it manifest, the 'can not boot' ? What is the symptom? Does it not show the Boot: prompt? Does it not find the kernel? fsck failure? Did you overwrite the masterboot record by some Win95 installation? > of the FreeBSD (I guess I have 2.x). I tried to use "fixit.flp" image, > but when > the floppy is mounted, all that I have is "find" command in /mnt2. There > is > no df, du or even mount. How can I salvage my hard disk? Everything you need for fixing should be there if you use the boot.flp-> fixit.flp procedure correctly. After you have booted the boot.flp and inserted the fixit.flp you should do a disklabel -r wd0 (sd0, or whatever your system drive is) if you not already know the partitions and then do a fsck on the raw partitions. You then can proceed mounting your root disk to /mnt (or was it mnt1) and do the necessary repair work. > > ANY HELP WOULD BE GREATLY APPRECIATED! > - Sam -- Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de
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