Date: Wed, 04 Aug 1999 18:27:50 +0300 From: Evren Yurtesen <yurtesen@ispro.net.tr> To: "J. Whitson Linder" <WLinder1@home.com> Cc: "'FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" <FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Lost Boot Sector Message-ID: <37A85BF6.80E2CA3E@ispro.net.tr> References: <01BEDE4B.D956A400.WLinder1@home.com>
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can it be a problem in the bios? like it does not know your hard drive specs? if not then try to boot with a fixit floppy and mount your / filesystem then you can have access to /etc directory too "J. Whitson Linder" wrote: > > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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