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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!news.sprintlink.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news-pull.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-dc-9.sprintlink.net!news.xnet.com!news-admin From: Paul Young <phy@xnet.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Help needed - freeBSD crashed, won't boot at all! Date: Sun, 09 Mar 1997 23:25:53 +0000 Organization: Virtual Software, Inc. Lines: 34 Message-ID: <33234701.C07@xnet.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: phy.xnet.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (Win95; I) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:36817 My freeBSD box (2.1.6.1) crashed while I was trying to back it up. I don't know why or how, but I get this message when it tries to reboot: > WARNING: / was not properly dismounted. > swapon: adding /dev/sd0s1b as swap device > Automatic reboot in progress... > /dev/rsd0a: /dev/rsd0a: BAD SUPER BLOCK: VALUES IN SUPER BLOCK DISAGREE WITH THOSE IN FIRST ALTERNATE > > /dev/rds0a: UNEXPECTED INCONSTENCY: RUNfsck MANUALLY. > Automatic file system check failed... help! > ... When I fsck manually, I get: > # fsck > ** /dev/rsd0a > BAD SUPER BLOCK: VALUES IN SUPER BLOCK DISAGREE WITH THOSE IN FIRST ALTERNATE > pid 16 (fsck), uid 0: exited on signal 8 > Floating exception Can someone help me recover the disk? I have a lot of stuff on it that I need - this was during my first full backup! While I'm at it, how do I get the system to do a crash dump? It had crashed a couple of times doing a compile before. I'd appreciate any help I can get. Thanks! -- Paul H. Young H:(847) 202-3841 phy@xnet.com, http://www.xnet.com/~phy ----------------------------------------------