From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 4 18:34:34 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8408EAAB for ; Mon, 4 Nov 2013 18:34:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from amvandemore@gmail.com) Received: from mail-pd0-x233.google.com (mail-pd0-x233.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400e:c02::233]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5D098296B for ; Mon, 4 Nov 2013 18:34:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-pd0-f179.google.com with SMTP id y10so6965865pdj.24 for ; Mon, 04 Nov 2013 10:34:34 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=gtIUsJuwnjAUJHsYItwvrN0yCdb6P6GAAwJ8jKpR6p4=; b=XUCFFlfNQ4VCZEsATHJmnedexBiZevEHj52antWNvhL0w3YSJsYn8QqB8h0eiSal7K VoVBx/255tPbKZcWlBpaMjdvL4ggjQo3q66a7nPUKFxkONz63P41b4RH5QP4njOXmTBE 7pvbqh+YFf11//POAFQlA5Cwnl+IHSZiA8ZECzf16uSE4Ue5tCtgfiLLAXcdOGFN5U3C Gw4hhEILNhxYqjSQpyzOqCTJ9gsiSdrv+j/QBUNsFk7vdVyr4ye+K2XnS4BKbdJ+1gfO vC1CDJSEbctPp7R8worAhGSoci57XbkVpIk4PjqzVmikbq7jaUkYDw6ZJOdWKBWMJOOY 2IMw== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.68.99.99 with SMTP id ep3mr19043521pbb.107.1383590073960; Mon, 04 Nov 2013 10:34:33 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.70.92.79 with HTTP; Mon, 4 Nov 2013 10:34:33 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2013 12:34:33 -0600 Message-ID: Subject: Re: ERROR - Cannot get GEOM tree From: Adam Vande More To: Drew Tomlinson Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.14 Cc: FreeBSD Questions X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2013 18:34:34 -0000 On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 12:24 PM, Drew Tomlinson wrote: > I've been happily running FBSD on a HP e60 Netserver for the past 13 > years. It's been so reliable, I've tended to just forget about it. However > after a power outage, it will no longer boot. > > I've done some testing and got it booted with a 9.2 LiveCD. I think the > version of FBSD on this box is 6.4. It has two 9 GB SCSI drives that I had > striped using gstripe. I think one of those drives has died but would like > to confirm before giving up. > > I've tried rewriting the MBR to both disks using "fdisk -B -b /boot/boot0 > daX" but get this error: > > Cannot get GEOM tree: Illegal byte sequence > > I've also tried "gstripe list" but get the same error. > > My stripe is "/dev/stripe/data" so I tried mounting it with "mount > /dev/stripe/data /mnt/data". I get this error: > > mount: /dev/stripe/data: R/W mount of /usr denied. Filesystem is not clean > - run fsck.: Operation not permitted > > So I tried to run "fsck /dev/stripe/data". Another error: > > fsck: Could not determine filesystem type > > I suspect one or both members of my stripe are dead. Can anyone confirm? > Is there anything else I can check before giving up? > There should be related messages in dmesg and /var/log/messages. -- Adam