From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 4 19:22:31 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 A6D76106566C for ; Fri, 4 Dec 2009 19:22:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fsb@thefsb.org) Received: from smtp194.iad.emailsrvr.com (smtp194.iad.emailsrvr.com [207.97.245.194]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F82C8FC08 for ; Fri, 4 Dec 2009 19:22:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from relay19.relay.iad.mlsrvr.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by relay19.relay.iad.mlsrvr.com (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id CF09F1B5415; Fri, 4 Dec 2009 14:22:30 -0500 (EST) Received: by relay19.relay.iad.mlsrvr.com (Authenticated sender: fsb-AT-thefsb.org) with ESMTPSA id 98BE41B53DB; Fri, 4 Dec 2009 14:22:30 -0500 (EST) User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/12.10.0.080409 Date: Fri, 04 Dec 2009 14:22:27 -0500 From: Tom Worster To: Henrik Hudson , Message-ID: Thread-Topic: recovering data from this disk Thread-Index: Acp1Fx1QnA/AT2QHt0+cVeCbdsVYZQ== In-Reply-To: <20091204185157.GA4904@alucard.int.rhavenn.net> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: Re: 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 19:22:31 -0000 On 12/4/09 1:51 PM, "Henrik Hudson" 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" 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"