Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2015 11:54:37 -0400 From: Robert Fitzpatrick <robert@webtent.org> To: FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: System won't boot after loss of power Message-ID: <553BB8BD.8060400@webtent.org>
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Looking for some advice on how I might be able to restore a FreeBSD 8 system after a power issue I think. This system was remote when it failed many months ago and only used as backup, so I waited until I was in town to try and fix. Now, I have a system that gives a blinking cursor and will not load the initial FreeBSD boot manager. The system has four (4) drives, two 150GB and two 1TB drives. Each pair is using gmirror with root, /usr, /var and /home on the 150GB pair while my backup data on one slice of the TB drives. I can use Live CD and make changes to the /etc/fstab to use the slices of one pair of drives and chroot to the existing system without gmirror and read all the data from all the partitions. This works for all drives updating fstab for each pair of drives. No matter how I update the fstab file, I just get a blinking cursor without reaching the FreeBSD boot manager at all. How can I diagnose further or restore the boot process? -- Robert
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