From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 17 12:41:47 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 7A1E016A426 for ; Fri, 17 Mar 2006 12:41:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from glenn@antimatter.net) Received: from cobalt.antimatter.net (cobalt.antimatter.net [69.55.224.239]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6696343D48 for ; Fri, 17 Mar 2006 12:41:46 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from glenn@antimatter.net) Received: from foo.antimatter.net (cpe-72-132-244-217.san.res.rr.com [72.132.244.217]) (authenticated bits=0) by cobalt.antimatter.net (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k2HDAaXd028846 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Fri, 17 Mar 2006 05:10:37 -0800 X-MailKey: purple frogs are falling from the sky Message-Id: <7.0.1.0.2.20060317043759.084011a8@antimatter.net> Message-Id: <7.0.1.0.2.20060317043611.07c8bcc0@antimatter.net> X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 7.0.1.0 Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 04:40:12 -0800 To: "Michael S" From: Glenn Dawson Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed 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 12:41:47 -0000 At 04:30 AM 3/17/2006, Michael S wrote: >I've tried both. fsck_ffs /dev/ad0s1a also exits because of bad superblocks. Have you tried to use any of the alternate super blocks? >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 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.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" > > > > >_______________________________________________ >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"