recovery after power outage

[Marty Landman]

On 2/9/07, Jerry McAllister <jerrymc at msu.edu> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 07:46:10AM -0500, Marty Landman wrote:
>
> > %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?
>
> Never saw that before, but it looks like it can't find   /dev/ad1s1c


Ok.

Did you copy/paste this or retype it in by hand


Retyped that by hand iirc, however  now that I'm booting also have an ssh
session up so no more typos.

Maybe using fdisk manually will give some more information.
> From root, run:   fdisk ad1


%sudo fdisk ad1
Password:
******* Working on device /dev/ad1 *******
parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are:
cylinders=486344 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl)

Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1
parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are:
cylinders=486344 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl)

Media sector size is 512
Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1
Information from DOS bootblock is:
The data for partition 1 is:
sysid 165 (0xa5),(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD)
    start 63, size 490223412 (239366 Meg), flag 80 (active)
        beg: cyl 0/ head 1/ sector 1;
        end: cyl 1023/ head 254/ sector 63
The data for partition 2 is:
<UNUSED>
The data for partition 3 is:
<UNUSED>
The data for partition 4 is:
<UNUSED>
%

Marty

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