recovering data from this disk

[Tom Worster]

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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