From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 4 14:12:42 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 44ED01065670 for ; Fri, 4 Dec 2009 14:12:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fsb@thefsb.org) Received: from smtp234.iad.emailsrvr.com (smtp234.iad.emailsrvr.com [207.97.245.234]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D4E58FC0C for ; Fri, 4 Dec 2009 14:12:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from relay13.relay.iad.mlsrvr.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by relay13.relay.iad.mlsrvr.com (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id A5DF21CF332 for ; Fri, 4 Dec 2009 09:12:41 -0500 (EST) Received: by relay13.relay.iad.mlsrvr.com (Authenticated sender: fsb-AT-thefsb.org) with ESMTPSA id 932B21CB234 for ; Fri, 4 Dec 2009 09:12:41 -0500 (EST) User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/12.10.0.080409 Date: Fri, 04 Dec 2009 09:12:37 -0500 From: Tom Worster To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Message-ID: Thread-Topic: recovering data from this disk Thread-Index: Acp069TPYrnR/nEw80mUVWqY3Ncvww== Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Subject: recovering data from this disk 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: Fri, 04 Dec 2009 14:12:42 -0000 any suggestions how to recover data from either of the mirrored disks that i can't get to boot? the situation is described below. (i'm assuming, given the silence on this, that making the system work after the freebsd-update is a lost cause.) On 12/3/09 11:14 AM, "Tom Worster" wrote: > after running freebsd-update -r 8.0-RELEASE upgrade my system won't boot. it > gets stuck on mountroot and i can't find the magic word it wants. > > the system used to have two sata drives /dev/ad4 and ad6. they were > partitioned and sliced using the deafaults that sysinstall suggested. > > at the boot prompt, lsdev says: > > disk devices > disk0: BIOS drive C: > disk0s1a: FFS > disk0s1b: swap > disk0s1d: FFS > disk0s1e: FFS > disk0s1f: FFS > disk1: BIOS drive D: > disk1s1a: FFS > disk1s1b: swap > disk1s1d: FFS > disk1s1e: FFS > disk1s1f: FFS > > which looks right, although i'm not familiar with the "disk" nomenclature. > > entering ? at mountroot mentions ad4 and ad6. > > geom_mirror was being used. > > i've tried saying "load geom_mirror" and/or "enable-module geom_mirror" at the > boot prompt. neither made any difference. > > nothing i've said to mountroot works: > > ufs:/dev/ad4s1a > ufs:/dev/ad6s1a > ufs:/dev/mirror/gm0s1a > ufs:/dev/disk0s1a > ufs:/dev/disk1s1a > > does anyone know the magic word? i'd be very grateful. > > tom