From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 24 19:53:23 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA21202 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 24 Feb 1998 19:53:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA21145 for ; Tue, 24 Feb 1998 19:53:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA10622; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 14:22:57 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id OAA27138; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 14:22:56 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19980225142256.26908@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 14:22:56 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Grimm , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Recovering from disaster... References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89i In-Reply-To: ; from Grimm on Tue, Feb 24, 1998 at 07:38:50PM -0800 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 24 February 1998 at 19:38:50 -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. If you don't use fsck, you don't recover the file systems. Period. I don't know of fsck trashing file systems (though I won't pretend it can't happen). Typically, if you have a trashed file system after fsck, it was trashed before. Greg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message