From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 24 19:45:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA19114 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 24 Feb 1998 19:45:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from emu.sourcee.com (emu.sourcee.com [199.201.159.173]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA19044 for ; Tue, 24 Feb 1998 19:44:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nrice@emu.sourcee.com) Received: (from nrice@localhost) by emu.sourcee.com (8.8.8/8.8.3) id WAA03719; Tue, 24 Feb 1998 22:44:14 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <19980224224413.11976@emu.sourcee.com> Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 22:44:13 -0500 From: Norman C Rice To: Grimm Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Recovering from disaster... References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.88 In-Reply-To: ; from Grimm on Tue, Feb 24, 1998 at 07:38:50PM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Feb 24, 1998 at 07:38:50PM -0800, Grimm wrote: > 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. Give fsck another try -- you can always fall back to a reinstall if it doesn't work. -- Regards, Norman C. Rice, Jr. > > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message