I am using FreeBSD-4.10, how do I boot it in single user mode? -Ed
On 3/21/06, Derek Ragona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Edwin, > > Boot the server single user, -s. Then if you need to, bring up the IP > stack manually. Depending on your mount points, booting single user only > mounts root, so you can try to fsck the other unmounted filesystems. Only > if those file systems are readable will you be able to get your files off. > > You can also try tar'ing files to floppy or other removeable drive you may > have on the server. Not a great solution, but it may be all you can do. > > -Derek > > > At 08:12 PM 3/20/2006, Edwin D. Vinas wrote: > > Hi, > > After a power outage my FreeBSD-4.10 server's 40GB HDD had many > fragmentations and no matter how I repeatedly do "fsck", the errors saying > "hard error reading fsbn" are still there. I tried doing fsck over and > over > but it seems this is already a hardware error and can no longer be > corrected. So my goal now is to recover my files! > > First, I did a "mount -a" and was able to copy some of important files but > I > have more data which I need to backup which I thought would only be > possible > if I can make the server boot and make it work at least with TCP/IP so I > can > transfer data to the other PCs in the LAN. But, after "mount -a", I edited > the fstab to set mounts to "frw" to force mount all drives and not give me > those "hard error reading fsbn". So, I rebooted the machine, only to find > out that after it mounted all partitions the the "/usr/libexec/getty" > something can't be found or executed for ttys and its giving me unending > errors. And there it goes, I can no longer access my filesystem because it > hangs or doesn't have a terminal when the machine is about to finish > booting. There is no prompt anymore, all I can see are the getty errors. > If > only I can edit fstab back without "f" option, I can still manually copy > my > files to a USB. > > Is there anyway to still recover my files? Is there a way I can edit > fstab > to remove "f" option so I can't have those getty errors? Or is it possible > to mount the server's HDD in another FreeBSD machine? > > > Thanks. > Ed > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > [EMAIL PROTECTED]" > > -- -- Edwin D. Viñas http://www.wisoy.com http://www.geocities.com/edwin_vinas/ IN THE WORLD OF SCIENCE, NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE. -- _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
