On 5/2/09, Matthias Apitz <g...@unixarea.de> wrote: > El día Saturday, May 02, 2009 a las 01:06:09PM +0900, till plewe escribió: > >> I have a usbdrive which was used on FreeBSD 6 or 7 but cannot >> be mounted now (on CURRENT with generic kernel). The drive is >> recognized but the individual slices do not seem to exist (see below). > ... > > I have had the same problem: booting CURRENT from an USB key and wanting > to get access to the SSD partitions created with RELENG_7 kernel in the > EeePC. I've found no way to do and labeled the SSD from scratch (had > even to overwrite the 1st blocks with dd(1) to make fdisk(1M) create > partitions there). > > In your case: boot a RELENG_7 rescue CD, mount the usbdrive and backup > the data (via LAN) to some other place. > > matthias >
Thanks. That sounds much more reasonable than what I was planning to do. I don't know why I wasn't thinking of the rescue CDs (most likely since I did not have to use them before). I'll give it a try once I find a big enough backup disk. - Till > -- > Matthias Apitz > Manager Technical Support - OCLC GmbH > Gruenwalder Weg 28g - 82041 Oberhaching - Germany > t +49-89-61308 351 - f +49-89-61308 399 - m +49-170-4527211 > e <matthias.ap...@oclc.org> - w http://www.oclc.org/ http://www.UnixArea.de/ > People who hate Microsoft Windows use Linux but people who love UNIX use > FreeBSD. > _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
