Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 19:38:50 -0800 (PST) From: Grimm <grimm@shell.pgonline.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Recovering from disaster... Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.95.980224193809.11429A-100000@shell.pgonline.com>
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I installed some new RAM today, without realizing that it wasn't non-parity (and leaving on the parity check in the CMOS) and FreeBSD, on bootup, panicked with the inevitable parity error. Now, when I try to boot up, what happens is that the kernel tells me that /, /usr and /var weren't unmounted properly, and that it can't fix them, (Error in Superblock, IIRC) and reboots automatically. Booting into single-user mode doesn't help much either. I can't mount /usr, for instance. I'm scared to use fsck, because it trashed my drive under similar circumstances before. Do I need to reinstall, wiping the drive, or can I actually recover from this gracefully? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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