Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 22:19:05 -0800 (PST) From: stheg olloydson <stheg_olloydson@yahoo.com> To: khaled.abu@gmail.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cannot boot 5.3 after power failure - major bug? Message-ID: <20050323061905.27700.qmail@web53904.mail.yahoo.com>
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it was said: >>>Well you can try to boot manually it may work. type the >>>following at the boot prompt >>> >>>0:ad(0,a)/boot/loader >>>OR >>>0:ad(0,a)/boot/kernel >> >>Ooops I guess the last one is 0:ad(0,a)/boot/kernel >>Sorry >> > >Oh man I hat keyboard shortcuts. just pasted the wrong one >again. > >0:ad(0,a)/boot/kernel/kernel Yup this is the one... I hope Hello, Thanks for the reply. I had tried that and kept getting the "invalid format" error. I am puzzled by the fact that I can get a directory list, but the boot loader thinks the format is wrong. Also it seems to be looking in /kernel and not /boot/kernel/. To work around the Disk 2 problem, I downloaded FreeSBIE and ran fsck from that. / reports as clean, but the box still does not boot. /usr and /home report HUGE numbers of uncorrectable errors and bad blocks. Tonight I am going to run SpinRite on the disk to see if the power outage really damaged the disk. (If it did, this will be the first time since the MFM/RLL disk days!) I will report the result of that test. Right now, I am thinking a power loss shutdown of 5.3 makes a system unrecoverable, but more of these tests are required before reaching that conclusion. Thanks, stheg __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/
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