From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 28 08:21:43 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 1AD4137B401 for ; Mon, 28 Jul 2003 08:21:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from web40610.mail.yahoo.com (web40610.mail.yahoo.com [66.218.78.147]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BB2CB43F85 for ; Mon, 28 Jul 2003 08:21:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from deesto@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20030728152142.31247.qmail@web40610.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [143.48.14.233] by web40610.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Mon, 28 Jul 2003 08:21:42 PDT Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 08:21:42 -0700 (PDT) From: John DeStefano To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 Subject: Crash after power failure 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, 28 Jul 2003 15:21:43 -0000 I have a FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE machine that was running 24/7 for about a month, hosting my web server. Unfortunately, yesterday our area experiences a series of power outages, one apparently long enough to have drained my UPS, and the BSD machine crashed as a result. When trying to bring the machine back up, it complained about slices on the primary slave hard drive (which the BIOS detected just fine) being unavailable or not existing. I booted and logged in as root using the default shell, and 'mount -a' and 'fsck' both complained in the same manner about the drive. I then rebooted and was presented with the same problems (prompted for default shell, same hard drive unavailable). What do I need to do in order to recover from the crash? Thanks, John --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software