need help

[Glenn Dawson]

At 04:30 AM 3/17/2006, Michael S wrote:
>I've tried both. fsck_ffs /dev/ad0s1a also exits because of bad superblocks.

Have you tried to use any of the alternate super blocks?


>On 3/17/06, Glenn Dawson <glenn at antimatter.net> wrote:
> > At 09:46 PM 3/16/2006, Andrew Pantyukhin wrote:
> > >On 3/17/06, Michael S <msherman77 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > Hi.
> > > >
> > > > I am relatively new to FreeBSD, have been running it since 5.1.
> > > > Nothing like what I experienced today had happened previously.
> > > > My machine crashed and I wasn't able to boot it back, the boot
> > > > processes wasn't able to find the kernel. I then booted with the 6.0
> > > > Release CD and went into the FIXIT mode.
> > > > I wasn't able to mount /dev/ad0s1a (I have an IDE drive), I then tried
> > > > fsck_ffs /dev/ad0s1 and the message was:
> > > > CAN'T READ BLCK 128
> > > > ioctl Inappropriate ioctl for device
> > > > fsck_ffs: /dev/ad0s1 can't read disk label.
> > > >
> > > > That machine was 6.0 p-1 (patched once) with slightly modified kernel.
> > > >
> > > > Is my data lost? Can anything be done still?
> > > > Any help would be appreciated.
> > > >
> > > > Michael
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> > >The bad news is that at least some data is lost and the
> > >HDD is toast. You might also want to try and mount the
> > >partitions read-only (this way they don't have to be clean).
> > >Some data might still be accessible.
> >
> > I think he would have much greater success by fsck'ing /dev/ad0s1a
> > instead of /dev/ad0s1.  (note the lack of an 'a' in the device name
> > in the output above.
> >
> > -Glenn
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