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Subject: Re: laptop keeps crashing, any ideas....
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on 27/09/2012 19:51 Jason Helfman said the following:
> Hello All,
> 
> I was wondering if anyone has any ideas on how I may diagnose/resolve this
> issue. This is running 9.0 amd64 on a Toshiba Satellite A215. Unfortunately,
> any cdrom other than the recovery cdrom doesn't work. And the recovery cd no
> longer will recover. I'm not sure if this is a related issue, or just that
> the harddrive is on it's last leg. It appears to be a filesystem issue, but
> I can't boot it to diagnose any issues.
> 
> I am unable to retrieve logs, so here is a photo of the crash. If you open
> in a image viewer, it should appear upright.
> 
> http://people.freebsd.org/~jgh/files/photo.JPG

>From a quick glance, your ffs filesystem appears to be badly damaged.
Not sure how you could proceed from here.  Maybe force fsck in single user mode.
Try to make a disk image copy and play with it first (or keep it as a backup).

-- 
Andriy Gapon