Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2006 18:11:02 -0700 From: Gary Kline <kline@sage.thought.org> To: Atom Powers <atom.powers@gmail.com> Cc: Gary Kline <kline@sage.thought.org>, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: System down, won't come up (was: Oh, no....) Message-ID: <20060903011102.GB2261@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <df9ac37c0609020833p33115cf2icbd25f38289d167@mail.gmail.com> References: <20060902033024.GA68680@thought.org> <20060902040551.GI25190@wantadilla.lemis.com> <df9ac37c0609020833p33115cf2icbd25f38289d167@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sat, Sep 02, 2006 at 08:33:44AM -0700, Atom Powers wrote: > On 9/1/06, Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@freebsd.org> wrote: > >On Friday, 1 September 2006 at 20:30:24 -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > >> > >> Well, gang, for about the only time in ten or eleven years, my > >> FreeBSD has kernel crashed. The kernel err is 18 I believe a > >> int divide by zero. I backup most stuff regularly but still have > >> several megs of data files. Can I fix this with a fixit disk? > >> Or is all hope lost? > > If it's only the data you want, try a FreeSBIE boot disk. That will > give you access to the file system/network, so you can recover your > data. > Where can I get this FreeSBIE boot disk? Is it a floppy or can I burn a CDROM? I have a "burner" on my new Ubuntu box, but have never burned anything but an audio CD. <OPINION> This is one of the myriad things I've never heard of, but sounds like it should be shipped with each CD boxed set... </OPINION> gary -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix
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