From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 23 03:32:42 2005 Return-Path: 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 CE66916A4CE for ; Wed, 23 Mar 2005 03:32:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: from web53910.mail.yahoo.com (web53910.mail.yahoo.com [206.190.36.220]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0F80943D4C for ; Wed, 23 Mar 2005 03:32:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from stheg_olloydson@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 38719 invoked by uid 60001); 23 Mar 2005 03:32:41 -0000 Comment: DomainKeys? See http://antispam.yahoo.com/domainkeys DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; b=HREXtqZE04HAu7Sy4vnWV2oUzU41ZIuU9Jxa8ibu76ZeqveNzj4vLfxMgs4vyBdkT8F5wn149J8OcnFIp6jdS3TmSEPER89kc2h1BIe9Nzzx/P2vhHwcJZTRbo0y5dksp+UIS0Ke09xPwxDYJNrya1XmON40msoH9nttDCea3MM= ; Message-ID: <20050323033241.38717.qmail@web53910.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [68.210.9.63] by web53910.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Tue, 22 Mar 2005 19:32:41 PST Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 19:32:41 -0800 (PST) From: stheg olloydson To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: cannot boot 5.3 after power failure - major bug? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 03:32:42 -0000 Hello, While testing 5.3, I deliberately cut power to the box and powered up. Much to my surprise, I receive the following error: error 16 lba invalid format FreeBSD/i386 boot Default: 0:ad(0,a)/kernel boot: No /kernel FreeBSD/i386 boot Default: 0:ad(0,a)/kernel boot: The disk is/was formatted as UFS2 (dangerously dedicated) with softupdates. If I enter a command, nothing happens: FreeBSD/i386 boot Default: 0:ad(0,a)/kernel boot:fsck -y FreeBSD/i386 boot Default: 0:ad(0,a)fsck boot: If I enter a question mark, I get a listing of the root filesystem's contents. (If the disk format were truly unknown, how is this possible?) This problem appears to be identical to the one posted by cell on 3/14/05, so this would seem to be a repeatable problem. Because this is a test box, I could just flatten it and reinstall, I would rather do a graceful recovery. Any suggestions on how to accomplish this would be appreciated. Note: Any suggestions involving using Release Disc 2 are problematic. For some reason, the iso will not burn; the process hangs immediately. I downloaded it from four different sites, including ftp.freebsd.org with identical results. (The other three disc images burn correctly.) Thanks for your time, stheg __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/