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At 03:52 AM 5/25/2008, gahn wrote:
>Hello all:
>
>My FreeBSD crashed. It boots fine but can't mount root directory. Here is 
>the message:
>
>/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
>...
>....
>Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ad0s2a
>
>Manual root filesystem specification:
>      <fstype>:<device> Mount <device> using filesystem <fstype>
>                                      eg. ufs:da0s1a
>      ?                          List valid disk boot devices
>      <empty line>         Abort manual input
>
>mountroot>
>
>///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
>
>
>Could any gurus here help me out this? I just want to save the files in 
>the home directory so that I can rebuild the system.
>
>Regards
>
>Dave

Boot a cd, then copy your files to another system, or to removable media.


         -Derek

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