Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1998 11:42:40 -0400 (EDT) From: Will Mitayai Keeso Rowe <mitayai@dreaming.org> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: Gaylefitz@aol.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: freebsd 2.2.2 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980812113950.28278A-100000@the.dreaming.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.00.9808120022510.28795-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
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Hmm... this sounds familiar. My trick was to use /stand/sysinstall to repartition the drive exactly as i had had it before. All the data came up fine, thankfully, saving me from a nervous breakdown already on its way from hacking and binary trojaning via the popper bug. -Mit --- Will Mitayai Keeso Rowe volunteer: employment: Project Co-ordinator Systems Administrator/Programmer The Dreaming Network Neray MarCom, Inc. http://www.dreaming.org http://www.nmarcom.com will@dreaming.org thelab@nmarcom.com On Wed, 12 Aug 1998, Doug White wrote: > > On Mon, 10 Aug 1998 Gaylefitz@aol.com wrote: > > > I have a small internet server running on freebsd 2.2.2 > > on 1998 08 09 at about 1730, a message was displayed that said "shutting down > > at 1800 hrs" according to a person logged into the server. i was not here, and > > did not see the exact wording or if it even presented a reason for shutting > > down. today, when i came in to work with the server, i found that it would not > > boot, saying that it could not find the /bin/sh file. it said "File or > > directory doesn't exist" and then asked me for an alternate pathname for the > > shell specified in /etc/rc > > I tried several different shells (bash, csh, sh, etc...) and none of them > > worked. > > i got onto #FreeBSD on EFNET running through my secondary DNS and an > > individual there said to download the boot and fixit disk images for FreeBSD > > 2.2.7 > > i did so, and the boot disk will not boot, halting at "ep0 not found at 0x300" > > When you boot, put '-c' on the Boot: line and remove all the devices that > aren't installed on your system. > > If you can get the fixit floppy u, check your fdisk and disklabels. > Something tells me they got wiped clean. > > > just before the warning about /bin/sh, there is a line saying > > WARNING: / Not properly dismounted. > > > > i would just as soon not have to reformat all of my drives and send them off > > to data recovery labs...is there anything you can suggest? > > Buy a backup device? > > Doug White | University of Oregon > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major > > > 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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