From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 17 12:30:15 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 0637E16A41F for ; Fri, 17 Mar 2006 12:30:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from msherman77@gmail.com) Received: from xproxy.gmail.com (xproxy.gmail.com [66.249.82.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F99D43D45 for ; Fri, 17 Mar 2006 12:30:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from msherman77@gmail.com) Received: by xproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id s9so420533wxc for ; Fri, 17 Mar 2006 04:30:14 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=OgO4BhiCUjBiEhjjV4dwd+upT20KqADcNjBX7B3fqTJgdFNRTZAjP4sjeCboxUzdASqJS9M3jmvLSgYHUM9gA5gHhEwjr4+AZFenGmoSETc+bMky1QsawRiEE4h9v6xBqSRcDaWvYub8PLxzJf+o2YDxGZ0zInOZaQ1E58E4GR4= Received: by 10.70.63.19 with SMTP id l19mr1232738wxa; Fri, 17 Mar 2006 04:30:13 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.70.109.17 with HTTP; Fri, 17 Mar 2006 04:30:13 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 07:30:13 -0500 From: "Michael S" To: "Glenn Dawson" In-Reply-To: <7.0.1.0.2.20060316222801.05f2ccc8@antimatter.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <7.0.1.0.2.20060316222801.05f2ccc8@antimatter.net> Cc: Andrew Pantyukhin , FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: need help 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: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 12:30:15 -0000 I've tried both. fsck_ffs /dev/ad0s1a also exits because of bad superblocks= . On 3/17/06, Glenn Dawson wrote: > At 09:46 PM 3/16/2006, Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: > >On 3/17/06, Michael S 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 trie= d > > > 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.org" > > > > > > >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. > > I think he would have much greater success by fsck'ing /dev/ad0s1a > instead of /dev/ad0s1. (note the lack of an 'a' in the device name > in the output above. > > -Glenn > > >_______________________________________________ > >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" > >