From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 3 01:37:10 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id BAA16380 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 3 Jun 1997 01:37:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.116.240]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id BAA16373 for ; Tue, 3 Jun 1997 01:37:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de (gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de [137.226.31.2]) by Campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (RBI-Z-5/8.6.12) with ESMTP id KAA27252; Tue, 3 Jun 1997 10:37:08 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from kuku@localhost) by gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de (8.8.5/8.6.9) id KAA08472; Tue, 3 Jun 1997 10:41:56 +0200 (MEST) Message-ID: <19970603104155.64715@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de> Date: Tue, 3 Jun 1997 10:41:55 +0200 From: Christoph Kukulies To: "Majmundar, Sam" Cc: "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" Subject: Re: Can't boot - even fixit did not help !!! References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.69e In-Reply-To: ; from Majmundar, Sam on Mon, Jun 02, 1997 at 10:41:44AM -0700 Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, Jun 02, 1997 at 10:41:44AM -0700, Majmundar, Sam wrote: > Hi! > > I have a duel boot Pentium with FreeBSD on 3G hard disk on SCSI id 1 and > NT on another 3G hard disk on SCSI ID 0. I usually changed primary boot > device and it worked fine for almost 6 months. Suddenly I can not boot > off How does it manifest, the 'can not boot' ? What is the symptom? Does it not show the Boot: prompt? Does it not find the kernel? fsck failure? Did you overwrite the masterboot record by some Win95 installation? > of the FreeBSD (I guess I have 2.x). I tried to use "fixit.flp" image, > but when > the floppy is mounted, all that I have is "find" command in /mnt2. There > is > no df, du or even mount. How can I salvage my hard disk? Everything you need for fixing should be there if you use the boot.flp-> fixit.flp procedure correctly. After you have booted the boot.flp and inserted the fixit.flp you should do a disklabel -r wd0 (sd0, or whatever your system drive is) if you not already know the partitions and then do a fsck on the raw partitions. You then can proceed mounting your root disk to /mnt (or was it mnt1) and do the necessary repair work. > > ANY HELP WOULD BE GREATLY APPRECIATED! > - Sam -- Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de