Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2000 09:56:41 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> 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: <20000903095641.E66079@wantadilla.lemis.com> 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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On Saturday, 2 September 2000 at 19:44:38 -0400, Sam Carleton 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. Are you sure that's the correct file system? > # fsck -A > fsck: illegal option A That's correct. Where did you get that from? > But nothing seems to work. Please help!!!!!! Well, a little more detail on the messages would help. For example, before the prompt for the shell path (the last prompt before entering single-user mode), there would have been an error message, probably something like "can't mount, file system not clean". What was it? Anyway, try this: # fsck -p You'll probably get a message that the fsck failed for certain file systems. NOTE WHICH ONES THEY ARE. If, for example, /dev/ad0s1e is one of them, do: # fsck -y /dev/ad0s1e If you still have trouble, reply with the error messages and possibly the contents of /etc/fstab, as Alfred suggests. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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