Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2000 16:59:57 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Sam Carleton <scarleton@miltonstreet.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: HELP! How do I recover from a power outage? Message-ID: <20000902165956.A18862@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <39B190BA.9CEE8941@miltonstreet.com>; from scarleton@miltonstreet.com on Sat, Sep 02, 2000 at 07:44:38PM -0400 References: <39B190BA.9CEE8941@miltonstreet.com>
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* Sam Carleton <scarleton@miltonstreet.com> [000902 16:45] wrote: > My FreeBSD machine lost power and now it will not boot up correctly. > When it boots, I end up at a prompt: > > mountroot> > > I have figured out how to get to a commadn prompt from there. I have > type in: > > ufs:/dev/ad2s1a > > The machine asks me for the path to a shell, defaults to /bin/sh, I > presee <Enter>. Then what do I do?????? I have tried things like: > > # fsck /dev/ad2s1a > Cannot open /dev/ad2s1a: Device not configured. > > # fsck -A > fsck: illegal option A > > But nothing seems to work. Please help!!!!!! Check your /etc/fstab, it's probably corrupted somehow. -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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