From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 31 20:23:17 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 9F7A11065670 for ; Fri, 31 Jul 2009 20:23:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from af.gourmet@videotron.ca) Received: from relais.videotron.ca (relais.videotron.ca [24.201.245.36]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 745108FC1E for ; Fri, 31 Jul 2009 20:23:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from af.gourmet@videotron.ca) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 8BIT Content-type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Received: from [192.168.0.51] ([96.21.103.185]) by VL-MO-MR001.ip.videotron.ca (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-4.01 (built Aug 3 2007; 32bit)) with ESMTP id <0KNN00B2ZXYSR980@VL-MO-MR001.ip.videotron.ca> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 31 Jul 2009 16:23:17 -0400 (EDT) Message-id: <4A7352B5.7040905@videotron.ca> Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 16:23:17 -0400 From: PJ User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (Windows/20090605) To: Roland Smith References: <4A71DB2A.4040401@videotron.ca> <20090730190458.GA36265@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <4A71F297.1080903@videotron.ca> <20090730220618.GA40281@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <4A7339A7.4010303@videotron.ca> <20090731185754.GB90516@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <4A734933.5040602@videotron.ca> <20090731200605.GB92292@slackbox.xs4all.nl> In-reply-to: <20090731200605.GB92292@slackbox.xs4all.nl> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how to boot or access problem file 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: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 20:23:17 -0000 Roland Smith wrote: > On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 03:42:43PM -0400, PJ wrote: > >> Basically, the news is not good. >> The directories & files are not what I had to begin with. >> ls /dev/ad0s1 or any disk/slice merely gets: Permission denied. >> > > Now that is certainly weird. :-) I've never come across something like that. > What do 'mount' and 'ls -ld /dev' return? Maybe /dev is mounted with > incorrect permissions. You are logged in as root, I presume? > > What strikes me as strange is that your data from the boot prompt > suggest that your FreeBSD install is on ad3 instead of on ad0. You > haven't messed with the cabling from the disks, or changed BIOS settings > regarding the boot sequence, have you? > > Roland > No cabling changes... but I did try different boot options... My setup is a raid1 mirror setup on two 75gb sata disks and another 80gb sata disk as well as another 40gb disk(who know what's on it) could be WindowsXP, but I haven't used it. I could try running PartitionMagic to see what's on there; but there's no guarantee it'll show anything... will try now. Ok, PM shows disk1 as ntfs; Disk2 is FreeBSD/386 76,316.6mb 0.0 unused active Primary Strange that it shows as full... wasnt when it was working. Weird if not strange... whereis disk 3 ? I may have to open the box... -- Hervé Kempf: "Pour sauver la planète, sortez du capitalisme." ------------------------------------------------------------- Phil Jourdan --- pj@ptahhotep.com http://www.ptahhotep.com http://www.chiccantine.com/andypantry.php