recovering data from this disk

[Modulok]

You might try freesbie. It's not a fixit shell, it's a full FreeBSD on
a live CD. I've had better luck with it in the past than the fixit
shell. Worth a shot.

-Modulok-

On 12/4/09, Tom Worster <fsb at thefsb.org> wrote:
> On 12/4/09 1:51 PM, "Henrik Hudson" <lists at rhavenn.net> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 04 Dec 2009, Tom Worster wrote:
>>
>>> any suggestions how to recover data from either of the mirrored disks
>>> that i
>>> can't get to boot? the situation is described below.
>>
>> If they were indeed mirrored then try a FreeBSD live distro boot CD
>> and boot into that then just mount one of the disk partitions that
>> you need.
>
> thanks, henrik,
>
> but i wasn't able to make the live fs fixit shell work. i get an error
> message when i try to start the live fs shell: "ldconfig could not create
> the ld.so hints file" and all commands fail to work.
>
> tom
>
>
>>>
>>> (i'm assuming, given the silence on this, that making the system work
>>> after
>>> the freebsd-update is a lost cause.)
>>>
>>>
>>> On 12/3/09 11:14 AM, "Tom Worster" <fsb at thefsb.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> after running freebsd-update -r 8.0-RELEASE upgrade my system won't
>>>> boot. it
>>>> gets stuck on mountroot and i can't find the magic word it wants.
>>>>
>>>> the system used to have two sata drives /dev/ad4 and ad6. they were
>>>> partitioned and sliced using the deafaults that sysinstall suggested.
>>>>
>>>> at the boot prompt, lsdev says:
>>>>
>>>> disk devices
>>>>   disk0: BIOS drive C:
>>>>     disk0s1a: FFS
>>>>     disk0s1b: swap
>>>>     disk0s1d: FFS
>>>>     disk0s1e: FFS
>>>>     disk0s1f: FFS
>>>>    disk1: BIOS drive D:
>>>>     disk1s1a: FFS
>>>>     disk1s1b: swap
>>>>     disk1s1d: FFS
>>>>     disk1s1e: FFS
>>>>     disk1s1f: FFS
>>>>
>>>> which looks right, although i'm not familiar with the "disk"
>>>> nomenclature.
>>>>
>>>> entering ? at mountroot mentions ad4 and ad6.
>>>>
>>>> geom_mirror was being used.
>>>>
>>>> i've tried saying "load geom_mirror" and/or "enable-module geom_mirror"
>>>> at
>>>> the
>>>> boot prompt. neither made any difference.
>>>>
>>>> nothing i've said to mountroot works:
>>>>
>>>> ufs:/dev/ad4s1a
>>>> ufs:/dev/ad6s1a
>>>> ufs:/dev/mirror/gm0s1a
>>>> ufs:/dev/disk0s1a
>>>> ufs:/dev/disk1s1a
>>>>
>>>> does anyone know the magic word? i'd be very grateful.
>>>>
>>>> tom
>>>
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