From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 30 19:22:33 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87262106566C for ; Thu, 30 Jul 2009 19:22:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from af.gourmet@videotron.ca) Received: from relais.videotron.ca (relais.videotron.ca [24.201.245.36]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CAA18FC0A for ; Thu, 30 Jul 2009 19:22:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from af.gourmet@videotron.ca) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 8BIT Content-type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Received: from [192.168.0.51] ([96.21.103.185]) by VL-MH-MR001.ip.videotron.ca (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-4.01 (built Aug 3 2007; 32bit)) with ESMTP id <0KNM00FOR0H42GE1@VL-MH-MR001.ip.videotron.ca> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 30 Jul 2009 15:22:16 -0400 (EDT) Message-id: <4A71F2E8.5000105@videotron.ca> Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 15:22:16 -0400 From: PJ User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (Windows/20090605) To: Tim Judd References: <4A71DB2A.4040401@videotron.ca> In-reply-to: Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how to boot or access problem file system X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 19:22:34 -0000 Tim Judd wrote: > On 7/30/09, PJ wrote: > >> What can be done to access a file system that seems to have the boot >> sector screwed up? >> The /usr files should be ok but how to access? >> I get errors that the file system is full and I have no idea of how to >> deal with the boot up - the help message is no help! >> Boot says it cannot find a kernel... surely there must be some kind of >> recovery process even if nothing has been backed up. Surely FreeBSD must >> be have something that functions like certain software does on MS ? >> I don't have a problem with irrecoverable files, I would just finally >> understand how things work and what can be done on FBSD. >> TIA. >> PJ >> > > > That's when the livefs comes to the rescue -- if you cannot boot at all > > Otherwise single-user boot works most of the time > how does livefs come into the picture here? What is it? How do you use it? Single-user? if the kernel is not accessible, how do I boot? -- Hervé Kempf: "Pour sauver la planète, sortez du capitalisme." ------------------------------------------------------------- Phil Jourdan --- pj@ptahhotep.com http://www.ptahhotep.com http://www.chiccantine.com/andypantry.php