From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 24 19:37:30 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA17955 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 24 Feb 1998 19:37:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.netbistro.com (vortex.netbistro.com [204.239.167.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id TAA17929 for ; Tue, 24 Feb 1998 19:37:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grimm@shell.pgonline.com) Received: (qmail 21334 invoked by alias); 25 Feb 1998 03:37:11 -0000 Received: (qmail 21326 invoked from network); 25 Feb 1998 03:37:10 -0000 Received: from shell.pgonline.com (grimm@204.239.167.36) by vortex.netbistro.com with SMTP; 25 Feb 1998 03:37:10 -0000 Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 19:38:50 -0800 (PST) From: Grimm To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Recovering from disaster... Message-ID: X-Geek: GCS d- s++:- a-- C++ UB++>++++ P+>++++ L- E? W+ N+(++) o? K- w+(!w---) !O M-- !V PS+ PE Y !PGP t+ ?5 X+ R tv b+ DI+@ D+++@ G e h- r y+** MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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