From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 15 15:51:10 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smith.ansci.iastate.edu (smith.ansci.iastate.edu [129.186.213.89]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE1A315629 for ; Thu, 15 Jul 1999 15:51:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hawk@smith.ansci.iastate.edu) Received: from smith.ansci.iastate.edu (really [127.0.0.1]) by smith.ansci.iastate.edu via in.smtpd with esmtp (ident hawk using rfc1413) id (Debian Smail3.2.0.102) for ; Thu, 15 Jul 1999 17:50:54 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: partially solved: Desparate: recovering file system after linux probed it. In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 15 Jul 1999 16:14:41 EDT." Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 17:50:54 -0400 From: "Richard E. Hawkins Esq." Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG hmm, this time I managed to relabel the partitions in disklabel, installed the dictionary files to force it to do something, and then was able to fsck and mount the old /home partition. I backed up and (i think) safely stored my dissertation on another machine. I've been through several boots from the diskettes now (this is an area where linux has freebsd beat hands down, particularly the inability to stop a ftp install without rebooting if an ip was wrong). I've also reinstalled the /bin distribution. I'm about to reboot one more time, but after the last round, it installed the boot loader, offers a default choice, and hangs. if I hit an fkey, that becomes the default for the next boot, but it never goes past this. I've found that I can get it to start booting from the hard drive when given that information when booting from fixit.flp, but it panics after attempting to mount wd0s3c3 --isn't that one too many letters? particularly the last "3" ? rick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message