Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 08:46:05 +0300 From: "Andrew Pantyukhin" <infofarmer@gmail.com> To: "Michael S" <msherman77@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: need help Message-ID: <cb5206420603162146v3dbfbbd4j30348f96e07e530d@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <d5f57b9c0603161433y44e2073ct5712377b617e0796@mail.gmail.com> References: <d5f57b9c0603161433y44e2073ct5712377b617e0796@mail.gmail.com>
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On 3/17/06, Michael S <msherman77@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.o= rg" > The bad news is that at least some data is lost and the HDD is toast. You might also want to try and mount the partitions read-only (this way they don't have to be clean). Some data might still be accessible.
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