From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 23 06:19:07 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 4292716A4CE for ; Wed, 23 Mar 2005 06:19:07 +0000 (GMT) Received: from web53904.mail.yahoo.com (web53904.mail.yahoo.com [206.190.36.214]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 56DD443D5F for ; Wed, 23 Mar 2005 06:19:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from stheg_olloydson@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 27702 invoked by uid 60001); 23 Mar 2005 06:19:05 -0000 Comment: DomainKeys? See http://antispam.yahoo.com/domainkeys DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; b=nKbvMySAnNLb4yOLUPtvrik4gccbPtdNIf2hgpb55nSK02VbPu4LUZco4V6+lPz5zOeQn5r2IXmRDkvAnubUleUIKvT9oBlI8zGHRp06b46yH3kBtiSwxSzcBwy1k6yrNZnCCpmQAVRhdJUZvhily03dlW9jhKc3bVPLQupjFF8= ; Message-ID: <20050323061905.27700.qmail@web53904.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [68.210.9.63] by web53904.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Tue, 22 Mar 2005 22:19:05 PST Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 22:19:05 -0800 (PST) From: stheg olloydson To: khaled.abu@gmail.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 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 06:19:07 -0000 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/