Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 12:47:19 -0400 From: Alain <af.gourmet@videotron.ca> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: recover corrupt 6.2 installation Message-ID: <46A77E97.8080408@videotron.ca>
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It looks like the / partition is corrupt. For some incomprehensible reason (possibly & probably the sata hdd connectors which appear to me to be very "flimsy" as I have had this connection problem on several motherboards) the sata drive gets disconnected or partially so. This appeared a couple of times after bootup when the computer seemed to slow down and could not access files. Rebooting necessitated fsck and after sever reboots and hdd cable jigglings, things were almost normal; cron gave innumerable mail messages and pkg_info could not find or read +COMMENTS or such files. Yet things worked more or less. Now, on bootup, the hdd appears to be read correctly but the messages come up: fsck: Bad file descriptor Unknown error; help! init: /rescue/sh on /etc/rc terminated abnormally, going to single user mode Enter full pathname of shell or RETURN for /rrescue/sh: I suspect that there are only 2 possibilities: reinstall everything (ohmigodidon'twant to go throught this again) or update the kernel or the 6.2 installation (maybe the installed programs don't need to be reinstalled ) :) What could be done? I have no important files on the disk as I keep those on other disks and/or computers. I have googled without success. Thanks for any suggestions. Phil
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