From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 29 9:58: 4 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sumter.awod.com (sumter.awod.com [208.140.99.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D507C37B417 for ; Fri, 29 Mar 2002 09:57:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from teddy.fas.com (pcp01010372pcs.mplsnt01.sc.comcast.net [68.58.176.67]) by sumter.awod.com (8.8.7/8.12.2) with ESMTP id MAA46990 for ; Fri, 29 Mar 2002 12:57:59 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from stanb@awod.com) X-Authentication-Warning: sumter.awod.com: User stanb [pcp01010372pcs.mplsnt01.sc.comcast.net] popped 236 seconds ago Received: from stan by teddy.fas.com with local (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16r0eX-0004jx-00 for ; Fri, 29 Mar 2002 12:59:05 -0500 Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 12:59:05 -0500 From: stan To: Free BSD Questions list Subject: Help PLEASE! Frustration == MAX, geting my machine back working Message-ID: <20020329175905.GA17886@teddy.fas.com> Mail-Followup-To: Free BSD Questions list Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i X-Editor: gVim X-Operating-System: Debian GNU/Linux X-Kernel-Version: 2.4.17 X-Uptime: 12:47:06 up 6 days, 17:31, 2 users, load average: 0.16, 0.15, 0.48 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I had, untill last weekend a very sweet FreeBSD 4 STABLE machine. I tried last weekend to upgared to the latest via CVSUP'ing, and portupgrade. To make a long and miserable story short, I woulnd up with so many things broken that I couldn't get them going till I had more time to work on them. So I set aside this weekend for geting thigs back working. After working on it all last night, and really making no progeress I decided I just wanted my machien back to where it was last Friday, and then I could try upgrading in smaller more managable chunks. I have a good set of Amanda backups, and the machine has several 40G disks in ti, only one of which I am presently using. So I decided the best way to aproach this was to partition one of the other disks to look just like the one I was using, and restore from the Amanda backups. Well I can't seem to get the disk partioned corectly. I am using susinstall and seting up the paritions to be just like the first disk: ad1s1a 500M / ad1s1b 1500M swap ad1s1e 200M /var ad1s1f remainder /usr Obvoiusly I had to tell sysinstall to prepend /mnt1 to all of these names to avouid conflicting with the existing mount points. Once I get all of this set up in the disk slice editor I press W and newfs et all is run. However, when I reboot the machine it complains that I must run fsck manually and can't read block 16 on /dev/ad1s1a every time. Thinking I mught have a bad disk (less than 3 months old, but possible0, I tried the same thing with /dev/ad2so, sam problem. I simply want to be able to get back to where I was last Friday! Can anyone provide some help here? -- "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message