From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 28 18:05:19 2003 Return-Path: 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 1DB5016A4CE for ; Sun, 28 Dec 2003 18:05:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from rdsnet.ro (smtp.rdsnet.ro [62.231.74.130]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 541C243D39 for ; Sun, 28 Dec 2003 18:05:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from itetcu@apropo.ro) Received: (qmail 28294 invoked from network); 29 Dec 2003 02:05:16 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro) (81.196.25.19) by mail.rdsnet.ro with SMTP; 29 Dec 2003 02:05:16 -0000 Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 04:06:27 +0200 From: Ion-Mihai Tetcu To: Francisco Reyes Message-Id: <20031229040627.54a0c256@it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro> In-Reply-To: <200312290150.hBT1o6U6013566@mail1.acecape.com> References: <200312290150.hBT1o6U6013566@mail1.acecape.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.8claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd5.1) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: FreeBSD questions Subject: Re: Please help. Can't see HD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 02:05:19 -0000 On Sun, 28 Dec 2003 20:54:06 -0500 "Francisco Reyes" wrote: > Upgraded to stable like so many countless times. > All was fine after reboot. After a few more reboots while > troubleshooting why a port was not coming up at bootup the > machine froze right after loading the kernel... at the part with > the spinning lines... |/-\ <== like those.. > > Upon bootup I am able to get the boot prompt if I press space > bar, but the only thing I am able to do is 'boot kernel'. > > Booting from a CD I was able to see the HD, but it lost it's > label information. I went and purchased a new HD and am in the > process of restoring most of my data from a second HD I have on > that machine just for backup purposes. I still have a couple of > things that are not backed up and would like to try and recover. > > Is there a way to recover the label info? I don't know if the HD > is dying or whether the filesystem/HD boot sector is messed up. newfs -N will *probably* give the alternate superblocks so that you could do a fsck_ufs -b. -- IOnut Unregistered ;) FreeBSD user