From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 4 5:35:19 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc1.tn.home.com (ha1.rdc1.tn.home.com [24.2.7.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB7901538B for ; Wed, 4 Aug 1999 05:35:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from WLinder1@home.com) Received: from ci743460-a ([24.2.232.59]) by mail.rdc1.tn.home.com (InterMail v4.01.01.00 201-229-111) with SMTP id <19990804123456.HIGT13450.mail.rdc1.tn.home.com@ci743460-a> for ; Wed, 4 Aug 1999 05:34:56 -0700 Received: by localhost with Microsoft MAPI; Wed, 4 Aug 1999 07:34:56 -0500 Message-ID: <01BEDE4B.D956A400.WLinder1@home.com> From: "J. Whitson Linder" To: "'FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" Subject: Lost Boot Sector Date: Wed, 4 Aug 1999 07:34:55 -0500 X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet E-mail/MAPI - 8.0.0.4211 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Greetings! A recent power outage prompted me to shut down my FreeBSD server before my UPS ran out of juice. I issued the "shutdown -h now" command and waited until everything was halted...then I cut the power. After power was restored, I began to reboot my systems. My server, however, halted at the boot prompt with the following error: Disk error 0x4 (lba=0x2bff) Invalid format >>FreeBSD/i386 BOOT Default: 0:wd(0,a)/kernel boot: I can type a "?" and get a root listing, but none of my kernels seem to work...not even the two backup "safe" kernels I keep just in case. The weird thing is, my custom kernels aren't listed. I have read through about 3000 posts on similar subjects, but none of those ideas seems to work for me. I haven't upgraded or anything recently. This is a virgin install of FreeBSD 3.1-stable. Disklabel reports that my original partitions and slices are the same as ever (this is a "dangerously dedicated" install). "/boot/loader" gives me the same error as above. I tried booting from floppies and mounting my old partitions, but didn't have any luck. I don't mind reinstalling the OS...I just would like to get the info from /etc and my user homes. Anyone have any ideas? J. Whitson Linder WLinder1@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message