Date: Fri, 04 Dec 2009 14:22:27 -0500 From: Tom Worster <fsb@thefsb.org> To: Henrik Hudson <lists@rhavenn.net>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: recovering data from this disk Message-ID: <C73ECBA3.144E9%fsb@thefsb.org> In-Reply-To: <20091204185157.GA4904@alucard.int.rhavenn.net>
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On 12/4/09 1:51 PM, "Henrik Hudson" <lists@rhavenn.net> wrote: > On Fri, 04 Dec 2009, Tom Worster wrote: > >> any suggestions how to recover data from either of the mirrored disks that i >> can't get to boot? the situation is described below. > > If they were indeed mirrored then try a FreeBSD live distro boot CD > and boot into that then just mount one of the disk partitions that > you need. thanks, henrik, but i wasn't able to make the live fs fixit shell work. i get an error message when i try to start the live fs shell: "ldconfig could not create the ld.so hints file" and all commands fail to work. tom >> >> (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" <fsb@thefsb.org> 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 >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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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