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Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2011 05:24:46 +0200
From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
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Subject: Re: fubar'ed it good this time...
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On Mon, 27 Jun 2011 06:40:27 -0700, Kurt Buff wrote:
> Your advice sounds reasonable, but that site seems devoted to zfs bootables.
> 
> I wonder if an 8.1 livefs iso will do the trick...

Check if you can download FreeSBIE somewhere. It's a live system
using the 5.x and 6.x kernel which should be fine. Next to two
GUI modes (light, heavy) it also has a versatile "maintenance mode"
for such operations. I have already successfully used this system
for solving similar situations, for diagnostics, and for data
recovery preparation.

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Polytropon
Magdeburg, Germany
Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...