From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 5 22:26:31 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0354916A402 for ; Thu, 5 Apr 2007 22:26:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from xliu99@yahoo.com) Received: from web54102.mail.re2.yahoo.com (web54102.mail.re2.yahoo.com [206.190.37.237]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id ABAB213C465 for ; Thu, 5 Apr 2007 22:26:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from xliu99@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 83667 invoked by uid 60001); 5 Apr 2007 22:26:30 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:X-YMail-OSG:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=OfAdPLxNps0hDcXZEy4TiYLqhetCqht6RaIBY3xiAXNXh9AzOeEdwGk6UNh0L5tdFowsOcydGDwi5EwvjoE6D03I2kTX9JPyEgMAcRBxoJKYCgBSMgbCtbjHB0/bbDYV1oDtEwxX9Ph5L/7tiCwpJ0xnwN+IaEZdH9fgcQ1tkN8= ; Message-ID: <20070405222630.83665.qmail@web54102.mail.re2.yahoo.com> X-YMail-OSG: Y.PHzvwVM1kNz7xaOJ_A_NLOsrwQUhYiJy2eqbcDcB4.zXqnbbxZS4qU5sJ7gtUbF9IT6zJJVFGzZT.J0Zb3dDd.OGgZwYMpXcv79deYWSBurXS.P_Fz4vSa3FHyVA-- Received: from [205.210.38.72] by web54102.mail.re2.yahoo.com via HTTP; Thu, 05 Apr 2007 15:26:30 PDT Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2007 15:26:30 -0700 (PDT) From: Xi Liu To: Mike Meyer In-Reply-To: <17941.22785.930117.211326@bhuda.mired.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is there a way to make the computer boot again with a possible corrupted gm drive X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2007 22:26:31 -0000 Thanks Mike! I was able to mount one of the SATA drive (which is part of the gmirror drive), and copy some data files to another IDE drive (bootable). But I can not copy some data files, there was error being printed out that says sth. like "...UNRECOVERABLE....", Hopefully, the data files I was able to copy is complete. The gmirror drive consists of two SATA drives. That I usally boot from this gmirror drive. Do you know if I can restore/rebuild the complete gmirror drive? If Yes, can you please point to me some instructions? That can save me lots of time/trouble to reinstall/reconfigure the whole system Thanks, Xi Liu --- Mike Meyer wrote: > In > <20070405194921.42863.qmail@web54111.mail.re2.yahoo.com>, > Xi Liu typed: > > BTW, I have another IDE disk installed with > > FreeBSD6.1. It can boots. Not sure if I can boot > up > > from this IDE disk and manually mount the mirror > drive > > gm0 and copy and save the data files on the mirror > > drive? > > Yes, it is. That's the sort of the point of > mirroring a drive. > > > Anyone did that before? > > Yes, I have. > > > Not sure if I can mount the individual SATA drive > for > > this recovery purpose (part of the gm0 drive). > > That depends on things you're not telling us. What's > the geom > configuration? What do you normally boot from? What > other devices > could you boot from? > > -- > Mike Meyer > http://www.mired.org/consulting.html > Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email > for more information. > ____________________________________________________________________________________ It's here! Your new message! Get new email alerts with the free Yahoo! Toolbar. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/toolbar/features/mail/