Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 19:18:14 -0400 (EDT) From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org (Jonathon McKitrick) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Need help with dying drive/restoring data Message-ID: <200409202318.i8KNIG601753@clunix.cl.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <20040920223554.GB38763@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> from "Jonathon McKitrick" at Sep 20, 2004 11:35:54 PM
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> > On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 06:19:06PM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: > : > > : > > : > Okay, I found that the fixit disk is able to mount the filesystem on the > : > dying drive. But I have a couple of problems. > : > > : > 1. Since this is a laptop (no CD-R or other mass storage besides the drive) > : > I need a way to get a few big tarballs made and sent elsewhere. I don't > : > think a floppy will work. I have a parallel port zip drive I will try > : > tomorrow. I can't figure out how to get my wi interface up. I loaded the > : > kld, inserted the card and heard it beep, but no interface shows up, or at > : > least pccardd didn't load it correctly. Not sure what to do next. > : > : Can you plug in a direct ethernet line and transfer stuff somewhere > : if you can't get the wireless to go? > > Yes, if I can get a regular ed0 device to work. > > : ps, You don't mount the slice. You mount the device - actually the > : file system in the partition which you are identifying as 'g' which > : is in slice '1' on disk 0 (unless it has renumbered the disk to '1' or > : something). > > I guess I don't know exactly how this works. I thought if I mounted the > device it would mount all the partitions. But I cannot get to the /usr > directory. Each partition is a device. If /usr is in its separate partition then you will need to mount it separately. If it is all in another partition such as root (/) then you need to mount that device and cd to the proper place. You seem to have chopped off the piece that had the partition you were trying to mount from the previous message, but I seem to remember something like ad0s1g. So, cd / mkdir oldusr mount /dev/ad0s1g /oldusr should get you that device/partition mounted and would be accessible starting at /oldusr. I am not real sure about creating the mount point that way with the fixit disk. If it makes a filesystem in memory for root (/), it should work. If not, it may be non-writable so you would have to use an existing mount point such as maybe /mnt if it isn't being used in some other way already. cd / ls -l to see what dirs are hanging around cd /mnt and look around if that one is there. If it is empty, then cd / mount /dev/ad0s1g /mnt Now, if the IDE disk order got shoved around, you may have to do some looking. It might be something like mount /dev/ad1s1g /mnt or whatever it comes up as. You may have to watch boot really closely to see what disk devices are named. But, first try running dmesg | more to see if it will tell you anything useful. Look for IDE devices. I don't know if dmesg will work on a fisit boot though. I have never tried it. ////jerry > > > > jm > -- > My other computer is your Windows box. > _______________________________________________ > 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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