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From: "Atom Powers" <atom.powers@gmail.com>
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Cc: Gary Kline <kline@sage.thought.org>,
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Subject: Re: System down, won't come up (was: Oh, no....)
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On 9/1/06, Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Friday,  1 September 2006 at 20:30:24 -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
> >
> >       Well, gang, for about the only time in ten or eleven years, my
> >       FreeBSD has kernel crashed.   The kernel err is 18 I believe a
> >       int divide by zero.  I backup most stuff regularly but still have
> >       several megs of data files.   Can I fix this with a fixit disk?
> >       Or is all hope lost?

If it's only the data you want, try a FreeSBIE boot disk. That will
give you access to the file system/network, so you can recover your
data.

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