From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 2 17:51:30 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2183A16A4E6; Sat, 2 Sep 2006 17:51:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@sage.thought.org) Received: from sage.thought.org (dsl231-043-140.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.231.43.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E570B43D49; Sat, 2 Sep 2006 17:51:23 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kline@sage.thought.org) Received: from sage.thought.org (kline@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sage.thought.org (8.13.6/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k82HpMuM004483; Sat, 2 Sep 2006 10:51:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@sage.thought.org) Received: (from kline@localhost) by sage.thought.org (8.13.6/8.13.1/Submit) id k82HpMOP004482; Sat, 2 Sep 2006 10:51:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline) Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2006 10:51:22 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Atom Powers Message-ID: <20060902175122.GA4394@thought.org> References: <20060902033024.GA68680@thought.org> <20060902040551.GI25190@wantadilla.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix for 20 years. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Cc: Gary Kline , FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: System down, won't come up (was: Oh, no....) 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: Sat, 02 Sep 2006 17:51:30 -0000 On Sat, Sep 02, 2006 at 08:33:44AM -0700, Atom Powers wrote: > On 9/1/06, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > >On Friday, 1 September 2006 at 20:30:24 -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > >> > >> Well, gang, for about the only time in ten or eleven years, my > >> FreeBSD has kernel crashed. The kernel err is 18 I believe a > >> int divide by zero. I backup most stuff regularly but still have > >> several megs of data files. Can I fix this with a fixit disk? > >> Or is all hope lost? > > If it's only the data you want, try a FreeSBIE boot disk. That will > give you access to the file system/network, so you can recover your > data. > From magnesium.net I followed up to-list that this 2001 server had n floppy. So, until I can beg a favor, and swap in a floppy, I'm totally wedged. --By the way, it's time to have a giveaway, so anyone in the metro Seattle area, if you areinterested in some seriously heavy-duty but slow HP Kayaks, drop a line. Greg: I was able to get to the boot screen and hit "4" [?] or "5"--whatever thr alt menu is. I typed boot /boot/kernel.old and for a few secs thought that would work. But upon hitting return/[Ehter], things reset. And-or back to the original fatal trap 18. This may have been a FS err because I was pushing the box pretty hard. I was doing a portsupgrade and installing/reinstalling lots of stuff. Whenever I can get somebody to temp swap in a floppy I'll try FreeSBIE. MOst of my data is public or personal junk, but to my amazement, my last backups of taoEtc.tgz was (*cringe*) late '01. gary > -- > -- > Perfection is just a word I use occasionally with mustard. > --Atom Powers-- -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix