On 2/8/07, Pieter de Goeje <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
If the slice and partition table are still intact (as they were before the
outage), a normal fsck -F on /dev/ad1s1a will get the pc booting again.
Well I managed to get the machine booting by editing /etc/fstab
%cat /etc/fstab
# Device Mountpoint FStype Options Dump
Pass#
/dev/ad0s1b none swap sw 0 0
/dev/ad0s1a / ufs rw 1 1
/dev/ad0s1d /tmp ufs rw 2 2
/dev/ad0s1f /usr ufs rw 2 2
/dev/ad0s1e /var ufs rw 2 2
#/dev/ad1s1c /hoss ufs rw 2 2
/dev/acd0 /cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0
That's a great start, however I'd like to recover what I can from ad1s1c.
%sudo fsck -F ad1s1c
fsck: exec fsck_unused for /dev/ad1s1c in /sbin:/usr/sbin: No such file or
directory
fsck: exec fsck_unused for /dev/ad1s1c in /sbin:/usr/sbin: No such file or
directory
What is that telling me?
You
can do this from a FreeBSD live cd such as FreesBIE or the fixit cd. You
can
then fsck the the rest of the filesystems in single user mode. You may
also
want to use the live CD to backup the important bits before, ehm, further
corrupting/restoring the filesystems. ;)
Sorry Pieter I'm lost again. Can't I use sysinstall? Fdisk? Wish I
understood the next steps here.
FWIW when I do a sysinstall and then use the fdisk utility I get
Disk name: ad1 FDISK Partition
Editor
DISK Geometry: 30515 cyls/255 heads/63 sectors = 490223475 sectors
(239366MB)
Offset Size(ST) End Name PType Desc Subtype
Flags
0 126 125 - 12 unused 0
126 490223412 490223537 ad1cs1 8 freebsd 165
490223538 11214 490234751 - 12 unused 0
Which appears that I perhaps have not totally hosed this disk up.
Marty
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