From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 3 02:25:03 2006 Return-Path: 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 980CC16A501 for ; Sun, 3 Sep 2006 02:25:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jerrymc@msu.edu) Received: from sys22.mail.msu.edu (sys22.mail.msu.edu [35.9.75.122]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37C8643D46 for ; Sun, 3 Sep 2006 02:25:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jerrymc@msu.edu) Received: from jerrymc by sys22.mail.msu.edu with local (Exim 4.52 #1) id 1GJhfS-0003YN-4u; Sat, 02 Sep 2006 22:25:02 -0400 References: <20060902033024.GA68680@thought.org> <20060902040551.GI25190@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20060903011102.GB2261@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <20060903011102.GB2261@thought.org> From: "Jerold McAllister" To: Gary Kline Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2006 22:25:01 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: X-Virus: None found by Clam AV Cc: Atom Powers , FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: System down, won't come up (was: Oh, no....) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 03 Sep 2006 02:25:03 -0000 Gary Kline writes: > On Sat, Sep 02, 2006 at 08:33:44AM -0700, Atom Powers wrote: >> On 9/1/06, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> >On Friday, 1 September 2006 at 20:30:24 -0700, Gary Kline wrote: >> >> >> >> Well, gang, for about the only time in ten or eleven years, my >> >> FreeBSD has kernel crashed. The kernel err is 18 I believe a >> >> int divide by zero. I backup most stuff regularly but still have >> >> several megs of data files. Can I fix this with a fixit disk? >> >> Or is all hope lost? >> >> If it's only the data you want, try a FreeSBIE boot disk. That will >> give you access to the file system/network, so you can recover your >> data. >> > > Where can I get this FreeSBIE boot disk? Is it a floppy or can I > burn a CDROM? I have a "burner" on my new Ubuntu box, but have > never burned anything but an audio CD. > > > > This is one of the myriad things I've never heard of, > but sounds like it should be shipped with each CD boxed > set... > > > It is. I think all you have to do is boot the regular CD and select live system or something like that (I don't remember the exact label in the menu, but it should be apparent. Then you can mount the other disk[s] and try to rescue things. ////jerry > gary > > > > -- > Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >