Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 06:23:55 -0800 From: Chip <chip@wiegand.org> To: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re:Not booting up problem, just happened 'out of the blue' Message-ID: <38D0EE7A.BCCC320C@wiegand.org>
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"Dr. Brain" wrote:
> Chip (chip@wiegand.org) wrote:
>
> > 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?
>
> You did remember to fsck the bad drive, right? Some data may
> have shown up in a lost+found directory...
>
> --
> Eric Hodel - drbrain@segment7.net - http://segment7.net
>
> "If you understand what you're doing, you're not learning anything."
> -- A. L.
Yeah, though I still get the same errors, Is there one specific
parameter
I should use? I ran it without any parameters and I ran it with -y.
I will check the lost+found directory, I hadn't checked that before, I
guess
because I didn't know what it's purpose was.
Chip
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