From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 2 11:51:06 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA19551 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 2 Apr 1997 11:51:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from proxy3.ba.best.com (root@proxy3.ba.best.com [206.184.139.14]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA19543 for ; Wed, 2 Apr 1997 11:51:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from shellx.best.com (shellx.best.com [206.86.0.11]) by proxy3.ba.best.com (8.8.5/8.8.3) with SMTP id LAA02566 for ; Wed, 2 Apr 1997 11:41:23 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 2 Apr 1997 11:41:19 -0800 (PST) From: "Eporue.aCid.AiS" To: support@freebsd.com Subject: big problem.. Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I hope you can help.. I think I may have toated my freebsd box. I was working with some directions I got from some people at support@freebsd.org to setup a readable dos dir from my dos partition. It seemed to be working, anwyays.. I was tring to copy some files I had in my FTP dir to my dos dir when I started to get invalid argument messages. I then went to the dos dir and saw a bunch of garbage where I had tried to copy the files to. I made the dir rw so I tried to remove the files and it said it couldn't remove the files that were all character garbage. I then tried to reboot and I couldn't, even has root.. I got 'operation not permitted'.. So then I did a soft reboot and next thing I know.. my freebsd won't boot.. It gets as far as letting me hit f5 to start to boot.. I get the preboot menu, I hit enter then I get the line dosdrive=81..etc.. you know the one.. and then it locks up.. nothing.. I am stuck on this.. I have no idea if my freebsd is gone or what.. if i can repair whatever it was I did to it.. I have messed around with a boot disk tring to get back.. no luck.. does anyone got a suggestion? I really don't want to loose the setup I had.. took awhile to get it to where I liked it and everything was working.. -Gavin