From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 14 06:43:47 2008 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 E39F616A417 for ; Thu, 14 Feb 2008 06:43:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mla@nasreddine.com) Received: from mal35-2-82-225-70-234.fbx.proxad.net (mal35-2-82-225-70-234.fbx.proxad.net [82.225.70.234]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 488D013C46E for ; Thu, 14 Feb 2008 06:43:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mla@nasreddine.com) Received: from localhost (server.nasreddine.info [127.0.0.1]) by mal35-2-82-225-70-234.fbx.proxad.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A5B923C63; Thu, 14 Feb 2008 07:43:46 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at nasreddine.com Received: from mal35-2-82-225-70-234.fbx.proxad.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (server.nasreddine.info [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id ilYP4H6z58+A; Thu, 14 Feb 2008 07:43:35 +0100 (CET) Received: from phoenix.nasreddine.info (phoenix.nasreddine.info [192.168.1.3]) by mal35-2-82-225-70-234.fbx.proxad.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B77323C61; Thu, 14 Feb 2008 07:43:35 +0100 (CET) Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 07:43:19 +0100 From: Wael Nasreddine To: Joe Demeny Message-ID: <20080214064319.GA2040@phoenix.nasreddine.info> References: <200802140108.35844.jd1987@borozo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="qMm9M+Fa2AknHoGS" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200802140108.35844.jd1987@borozo.com> X-OS: Linux 2.6.24-tuxonice i686 X-Editor: VIM - Vi IMproved 7.1 (2007 May 12, compiled Feb 4 2008 15:13:47) X-PGP-Key: http://wael.nasreddine.com/files/Wael_Nasreddine.asc User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Trying to recover data from FreeBSD 4.11 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, 14 Feb 2008 06:43:48 -0000 --qMm9M+Fa2AknHoGS Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable This One Time, at Band Camp, Joe Demeny said, On Thu, F= eb 14, 2008 at 01:08:35AM -0500: > I have an old Cyrix computer which doesn't post any more. > It had 3 hard drives. The boot drive had the / partition as well as /usr= =20 > and /var, and the other 2 drives were configured with Vinum RAID 1 for /h= ome. > I hooked up what used to be the boot drive in a new system and it showed = what=20 > looked like some hex numbers and then the error message "BTX halted". > So, I installed this drive as the second hard drive in a FreeBSD 6.2 syst= em=20 > and I tried to mount it, but I got "incorrect super block". > Looks like I have /dev/ad1, /dev/ad1s1, /dev/ad1s1c, and /dev/ad1s1e. > Is there a way to mount these filesystems? When you try to mount it, what'd you get in dmesg ?? --=20 Wael Nasreddine http://wael.nasreddine.com PGP: 1024D/C8DD18A2 06F6 1622 4BC8 4CEB D724 DE12 5565 3945 C8DD 18A2 =2E: An infinite number of monkeys typing into GNU emacs, would never make a good program. (L. Torvalds 1995) :. --qMm9M+Fa2AknHoGS Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHs+MHVWU5RcjdGKIRAhKKAKCrNL4G7z6q8zYMwaY6hvE732h5gACdEuMZ c7wxuc/+nTKBT/MmWNic6yQ= =y5n0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --qMm9M+Fa2AknHoGS--