Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 15:30:59 -0600 From: Tim Judd <tajudd@gmail.com> To: PJ <af.gourmet@videotron.ca> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how to boot or access problem file system Message-ID: <ade45ae90907301430n507cc79av22a02de42dcb78f1@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4A71F2E8.5000105@videotron.ca> References: <4A71DB2A.4040401@videotron.ca> <ade45ae90907301150p3a8246abg74ba607db9c60220@mail.gmail.com> <4A71F2E8.5000105@videotron.ca>
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On 7/30/09, PJ <af.gourmet@videotron.ca> wrote: > Tim Judd wrote: >> On 7/30/09, PJ <af.gourmet@videotron.ca> wrote: >> >>> What can be done to access a file system that seems to have the boot >>> sector screwed up? >>> The /usr files should be ok but how to access? >>> I get errors that the file system is full and I have no idea of how to >>> deal with the boot up - the help message is no help! >>> Boot says it cannot find a kernel... surely there must be some kind of >>> recovery process even if nothing has been backed up. Surely FreeBSD must >>> be have something that functions like certain software does on MS ? >>> I don't have a problem with irrecoverable files, I would just finally >>> understand how things work and what can be done on FBSD. >>> TIA. >>> PJ >>> >> >> >> That's when the livefs comes to the rescue -- if you cannot boot at all >> >> Otherwise single-user boot works most of the time >> > how does livefs come into the picture here? What is it? How do you use it? > > Single-user? if the kernel is not accessible, how do I boot? It's another ISO image you burn to CD and boot. It's a live filesystem off CD. Since it doesn't depend on your hard drive's filesystem - it can boot to BSD, and give you a emergency repair environment to do your work (including mounting your HDD partitions) and then restart with the hard drive. Windows still hasn't got that down, yet.
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