Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 00:43:04 -0700 From: Chris Fedde <chris@fedde.littleton.co.us> To: "Joe Parks" <pleaseworky@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help! No longer booting, trying to recover.. Message-ID: <200201150743.g0F7h4874157@fedde.littleton.co.us> In-Reply-To: <F733L9BGTuAyHsjCGvs000004e6@hotmail.com>
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On Mon, 14 Jan 2002 22:10:34 -0700 "Joe Parks" wrote:
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| I am running FreeBSD 4.4. Today I booted and was given the F1, F2...
| menu and after it timed out and went to the default choice, it gave
| an error message and did not boot. So I reset the computer, and now
| it no longer even goes to the F1, F2... menu, instead it just
| immediately tells me Operating System Not Found.
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At best you have just lost the boot block and disklabel. You should
be able to re-create these by booting to the fixit CD and use the
bsd version of fdisk and disklabel to re-create it. /stand/sysinstall
wraps a menuing shell around these (and other) functions that might
help. If it is just the boot block that is gone then /stand/sysinstall
might be just what you need.
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| 4. Finally, was I completely misguided in trying to vi the device
| files, and if NOT, is there any other tricky kind of way I can try
| to get just the one text file I need ? Remember,I don't need to
| recover the drive (although it would be nice) I just need that one
| text file.
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If the superblock is intact you may have some luck using fsdb(8) to find
your data. But even doing that you need to have a good disklabel and
device files. There is a slim chance that you might be able to find your
data by using clever combinations of dd and grep. But I have yet to see
this work.
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Chris Fedde
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