From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG  Thu Mar 16 22:33:44 2006
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
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 58D8016A427
	for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>;
	Thu, 16 Mar 2006 22:33:44 +0000 (UTC)
	(envelope-from msherman77@gmail.com)
Received: from xproxy.gmail.com (xproxy.gmail.com [66.249.82.192])
	by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE3FC43D4C
	for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>;
	Thu, 16 Mar 2006 22:33:42 +0000 (GMT)
	(envelope-from msherman77@gmail.com)
Received: by xproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id s9so338991wxc
	for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>;
	Thu, 16 Mar 2006 14:33:42 -0800 (PST)
DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com;
	h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition;
	b=FNa6mejFW1P83Atg8YnnRiFlf76Iq99G6kFwBSpe2C/1AbmTcuO8suIMey9xLb6RbQqcPK6Ia1vRqmM7wLk0U0h3tXanUH/hs4Vm3ZbHuVwmOldDknqPbkooMBbfjErpB1ukTcj62YFjVRC4GI+2AJtGmrDcnlqXwPdZlBfI8PQ=
Received: by 10.70.29.3 with SMTP id c3mr2741706wxc;
	Thu, 16 Mar 2006 14:33:40 -0800 (PST)
Received: by 10.70.109.17 with HTTP; Thu, 16 Mar 2006 14:33:40 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <d5f57b9c0603161433y44e2073ct5712377b617e0796@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 17:33:40 -0500
From: "Michael S" <msherman77@gmail.com>
To: "FreeBSD Mailing List" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Content-Disposition: inline
Subject: need help
X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5
Precedence: list
List-Id: User questions <freebsd-questions.freebsd.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>, 
	<mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions>
List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>, 
	<mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 22:33:44 -0000

Hi.

I am relatively new to FreeBSD, have been running it since 5.1.
Nothing like what I experienced today had happened previously.
My machine crashed and I wasn't able to boot it back, the boot
processes wasn't able to find the kernel. I then booted with the 6.0
Release CD and went into the FIXIT mode.
I wasn't able to mount /dev/ad0s1a (I have an IDE drive), I then tried
fsck_ffs /dev/ad0s1 and the message was:
CAN'T READ BLCK 128
ioctl Inappropriate ioctl for device
fsck_ffs: /dev/ad0s1 can't read disk label.

That machine was 6.0 p-1 (patched once) with slightly modified kernel.

Is my data lost? Can anything be done still?
Any help would be appreciated.

Michael