From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 15 22: 5:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pioneernet.net (imail.pioneernet.net [208.240.196.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3058137BB42 for ; Wed, 15 Mar 2000 22:05:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chip@wiegand.org) Received: from wiegand.org [208.194.173.26] by pioneernet.net with ESMTP (SMTPD32-6.00) id AA3B49E8016C; Wed, 15 Mar 2000 22:07:55 -0800 Message-ID: <38D079D7.7B22FF5E@wiegand.org> Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 22:06:16 -0800 From: Chip X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Cc: "seafug@dub.net" Subject: Not booting up problem, just happened 'out of the blue' Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG The other day I was using FBSD just fine, when I had to reboot into winblows to read a .rtf file from a friend. After rebooting again to get back to the proper OS I got the following failure messages: Loading /boot/defaults/loader.conf Unable to load Kernel: Aborted! | Hit Enter to boot immediately, or any other key for command prompt. Booting {Kernel}... Can't load 'Kernel' Type '?' for detailed commands, 'help' for more detailed help. disk3s1a:> The commands and 'help' don't help much. The familiar cd doesn't work, so I can't get into my saved-data directory. I then booted off the 2nd cd into the fix-it prompt, whatever it was called, but when I was finally able to mount the proper partition to access my saved-data directory, it was empty. In fact, all the programs I had loaded after installing fbsd were gone, the desktop settings were gone. Seems everything related to my user logon were gone. Now I have moved that drive to the secondary master position and added a new primary slave and installed a fresh fbsd. I can mount the bad disk, but am unable to find any of the files I desperately need. Is there any hope for me to get those files off that disk? Chip Wiegand www.wiegand.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message