how to boot or access problem file system

[PJ]

Gardner Bell wrote:
> Gardner Bell
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> --- On Fri, 7/31/09, PJ <af.gourmet at videotron.ca> wrote:
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>> From: PJ <af.gourmet at videotron.ca>
>> Subject: Re: how to boot or access problem file system
>> To: "Roland Smith" <rsmith at xs4all.nl>
>> Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
>> Received: Friday, July 31, 2009, 8:44 PM
>> PJ wrote:
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>>> Roland Smith wrote:
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>>>> On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 03:42:43PM -0400, PJ
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>> wrote:
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>>>>> Basically, the news is not good.
>>>>> The directories & files are not what I had
>>>>>           
>> to begin with.
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>>>>> ls /dev/ad0s1 or any disk/slice merely gets:
>>>>>           
>> Permission denied.
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>>>> Now that is certainly weird. :-) I've never come
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>> across something
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>>>> like that.
>>>> What do 'mount' and 'ls -ld /dev' return? Maybe
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>> /dev is mounted with
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>>>> incorrect permissions. You are logged in as root,
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>> I presume?
>> Now, how could I be logged in? from livefs?
>> On bootup, I see ar0 boot error or something like that...
>> ls /dev ... shows ad0, ad10, ad12, ad4 and ar0
>> ad0 only has ad0s1 (I assume this to be ntfs
>> ad10 also has s1, s1a, s1b, c, d, e, e, suffixes
>> ad4 has s1, s1a, s1b, no c, but d, e, f suffixes
>> The stench from Denmark is getting to me... ;-)
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> Insulting much with your remark about Denmark?
>   
Read Shakespeare !  (Or look up the phrase "Something is rotten in
Denmark" on Google.