Date: Thu, 7 Mar 96 15:37:32 GMT From: fergal@odyssey.ucc.ie (Fergal Lane) To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: help needed Message-ID: <9603071537.AA27024@odyssey.ucc.ie>
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Hi everyone, I am having serious difficulties with a FreeBSD 2.0.5 system. I have some important non-backed up data (OK, not very bright) on it which I would like to retrieve if at all possible. I had transferred my account to the FreeBSD machine about a week previously, it seemed quite stable. I had been logged in for about 2 days and then logged out. The background to the login box came back up but not the login box itself. I then rebooted the machine but it only got so far in the bootup sequence and has not gone any further since. It gets as far as : npx0 on motherboard npx0 : INT 16 interface WARNING : / was not properly dismounted and then it hangs. We have tried using the 2.1 fixit and boot floppies without success. They can't seem to mount the disk. The DOS partition is fine. Within FreeBSD the filesystem seemed fine up to the time I logged out. Even if some configuration files have been corrupted surely the boot floppy should at least allow me to mount the FreeBSD partition. Am I right in assuming the 2.1 floppies should work with FreeBSD 2.0.5.? I tried looking for a 2.0.5 fixit floppy but one doesn't seem to exist. Any way to mount FreeBSD from the DOS partition to retrieve the data? Do the way partition slices are set up on FreeBSD 2.0.5 differ from FreeBSD 2.1. If so is there a way to build a fixit floppy to take this into account? At this stage we are completely stumped. I know this is a fairly non-specific problem but if anyone out there has any ideas it would be very much appreciated. Regards, Fergal Lane <fergal@odyssey.ucc.ie>
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