Gardner Bell gbel...@rogers.com wrote:
The stench from Denmark is getting to me... ;-)
Insulting much with your remark about Denmark?
Methinks it be an oblique reference to
a line from Shakespeare's play about the Dane
with no insult intended, then or now.
Gardner Bell wrote:
Gardner Bell
--- On Fri, 7/31/09, PJ af.gour...@videotron.ca wrote:
From: PJ af.gour...@videotron.ca
Subject: Re: how to boot or access problem file system
To: Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl
Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Received: Friday, July 31, 2009, 8:44 PM
per...@pluto.rain.com wrote:
Gardner Bell gbel...@rogers.com wrote:
The stench from Denmark is getting to me... ;-)
Insulting much with your remark about Denmark?
Methinks it be an oblique reference to
a line from Shakespeare's play about the Dane
with no insult intended,
On Thursday 30 July 2009 23:14:39 PJ wrote:
But isn't it strange that it used to be pretty simple to upgrade and
update. But recently, I notice that communication between the developers
and users (or is it the manual page writers) are getting far away from
the realities of user/operational
Roland Smith wrote:
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 03:20:55PM -0400, PJ wrote:
Roland Smith wrote:
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 01:40:58PM -0400, PJ wrote:
What can be done to access a file system that seems to have the boot
sector screwed up?
I forgot to mention that
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 02:36:23PM -0400, PJ wrote:
Thanks for replying Roland,
I've been struggling with upgrading 7.0 to 7.2... it has taken a lot of
my time and I am still not happy.
snip
Anyway... back to the messed up 7.1 installation.
I ran livefs 7.1 and chose option 6 (I think; it was
Roland Smith wrote:
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 03:20:55PM -0400, PJ wrote:
Roland Smith wrote:
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 01:40:58PM -0400, PJ wrote:
What can be done to access a file system that seems to have the boot
sector screwed up?
I forgot to mention that
Roland Smith wrote:
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 02:36:23PM -0400, PJ wrote:
Thanks for replying Roland,
I've been struggling with upgrading 7.0 to 7.2... it has taken a lot of
my time and I am still not happy.
snip
Anyway... back to the messed up 7.1 installation.
I ran livefs 7.1
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 03:12:21PM -0400, PJ wrote:
Roland Smith wrote:
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 03:20:55PM -0400, PJ wrote:
Roland Smith wrote:
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 01:40:58PM -0400, PJ wrote:
What can be done to access a file system that seems to have the
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 03:42:43PM -0400, PJ wrote:
Basically, the news is not good.
The directories files are not what I had to begin with.
ls /dev/ad0s1 or any disk/slice merely gets: Permission denied.
Now that is certainly weird. :-) I've never come across something like that.
What do
Roland Smith wrote:
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 03:12:21PM -0400, PJ wrote:
Roland Smith wrote:
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 03:20:55PM -0400, PJ wrote:
Roland Smith wrote:
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 01:40:58PM -0400, PJ wrote:
What can be
Roland Smith wrote:
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 03:42:43PM -0400, PJ wrote:
Basically, the news is not good.
The directories files are not what I had to begin with.
ls /dev/ad0s1 or any disk/slice merely gets: Permission denied.
Now that is certainly weird. :-) I've never come across
PJ wrote:
Roland Smith wrote:
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 03:42:43PM -0400, PJ wrote:
Basically, the news is not good.
The directories files are not what I had to begin with.
ls /dev/ad0s1 or any disk/slice merely gets: Permission denied.
Now that is certainly weird. :-) I've never come
Gardner Bell
--- On Fri, 7/31/09, PJ af.gour...@videotron.ca wrote:
From: PJ af.gour...@videotron.ca
Subject: Re: how to boot or access problem file system
To: Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl
Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Received: Friday, July 31, 2009, 8:44 PM
PJ wrote:
Roland
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...
On 7/30/09, PJ af.gour...@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
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 01:40:58PM -0400, PJ wrote:
What can be done to access a file system that seems to have the boot
sector screwed up?
Do you mean the filesystem's superblock? Or the slice table (partitions
in PC parlance) or the freebsd partitions (disk labels)? Because the
boot sector is
Roland Smith wrote:
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 01:40:58PM -0400, PJ wrote:
What can be done to access a file system that seems to have the boot
sector screwed up?
Do you mean the filesystem's superblock? Or the slice table (partitions
in PC parlance) or the freebsd partitions (disk
Tim Judd wrote:
On 7/30/09, PJ af.gour...@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
PJ wrote:
What can be done to access a file system that seems to have the boot
sector screwed up?
Usually there are more than 1 file system present. The MBR will have no
bearing on any other than the one you need to boot from, and this is usually
the / - aka root. Having a screwed up MBR
Michael Powell wrote:
PJ wrote:
What can be done to access a file system that seems to have the boot
sector screwed up?
Usually there are more than 1 file system present. The MBR will have no
bearing on any other than the one you need to boot from, and this is usually
the / -
--On Thursday, July 30, 2009 14:45:46 -0500 PJ af.gour...@videotron.ca wrote:
Mike,
I am not particularly interested in becoming a guru on FreeBSD. I just
want to be able to use it productively... by that I do not mean make
money, but get something achieved in the way of programming stuff for
Paul Schmehl wrote:
--On Thursday, July 30, 2009 14:45:46 -0500 PJ
af.gour...@videotron.ca wrote:
Mike,
I am not particularly interested in becoming a guru on FreeBSD. I just
want to be able to use it productively... by that I do not mean make
money, but get something achieved in the way of
On 7/30/09, PJ af.gour...@videotron.ca wrote:
Tim Judd wrote:
On 7/30/09, PJ af.gour...@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
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 03:20:55PM -0400, PJ wrote:
Roland Smith wrote:
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 01:40:58PM -0400, PJ wrote:
What can be done to access a file system that seems to have the boot
sector screwed up?
I forgot to mention that your boot sector is fine. If it were screwed
up,
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