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 up - the help message is no help! >> Boot says it cannot find a kernel... surely there must be some kind of >> recovery process even if nothing has been backed up. Surely FreeBSD must >> be have something that functions like certain software does on MS ? >> I don't have a problem with irrecoverable files, I would just finally >> understand how things work and what can be done on FBSD. >> TIA. >> PJ >> > > > That's when the livefs comes to the rescue -- if you cannot boot at all > > Otherwise single-user boot works most of the time > how does livefs come into the picture here? What is it? How do you use it?
Single-user? if the kernel is not accessible, how do I boot? -- Hervé Kempf: "Pour sauver la planète, sortez du capitalisme." ------------------------------------------------------------- Phil Jourdan --- p...@ptahhotep.com http://www.ptahhotep.com http://www.chiccantine.com/andypantry.php _______________________________________________ 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"
