From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 27 19:27:59 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50BA416A4CE for ; Sun, 27 Jun 2004 19:27:59 +0000 (GMT) Received: from web52103.mail.yahoo.com (web52103.mail.yahoo.com [206.190.39.72]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DC56C43D54 for ; Sun, 27 Jun 2004 19:27:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from idfubar@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20040627192704.9134.qmail@web52103.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [66.234.212.108] by web52103.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sun, 27 Jun 2004 12:27:04 PDT Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2004 12:27:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Rishi Chopra To: Sergey Zaharchenko , rchopra@cal.berkeley.edu In-Reply-To: <20040624033142.GA2667@shark.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 12:45:01 +0000 cc: Dan Nelson Subject: Re: Reinstalling And /usr X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: rchopra@cal.berkeley.edu List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2004 19:27:59 -0000 --- Sergey Zaharchenko wrote: > On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 09:43:54AM -0700, > Rishi Chopra probably wrote: > > > What I've done is gotten another set of four > drives > > and reinstalled everything from scratch (using the > > same partition and slice values) and then simply > > exported the MBR. Only trouble is now I get a "/: > bad > > dir ino 19009 at offset 0" error during startup; > looks > > like recovering the MBR is a wash... > > You could try booting from a rescue diskette, > backing up /, newfs'ing it > and restoring... > > -- > DoubleF > 10.0 times 0.1 is hardly ever 1.0. > > ATTACHMENT part 2 application/pgp-signature This is exactly the problem; I'm a novice user who isn't sure how exactly to boot from a rescue disk, how to back up /, etc. What I'm hoping is that someone can volunteer to help my out; I'll ship my box to you and pay you whatever you wish for your time. I'm willing to attempt recovery on my own, but my skills are limited and recovering the MBR to its current state was the best I could do; the inode error has me stumped. Any volunteers to help me out? ===== Rishi Chopra http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~rchopra __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 50x more storage than other providers! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail