On Sat, Sep 02, 2006 at 08:33:44AM -0700, Atom Powers wrote:
> On 9/1/06, Greg 'groggy' Lehey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >On Friday, 1 September 2006 at 20:30:24 -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
> >>
> >> Well, gang, for about the only time in ten or eleven years, my
> >> FreeBSD has kernel crashed. The kernel err is 18 I believe a
> >> int divide by zero. I backup most stuff regularly but still have
> >> several megs of data files. Can I fix this with a fixit disk?
> >> Or is all hope lost?
>
> If it's only the data you want, try a FreeSBIE boot disk. That will
> give you access to the file system/network, so you can recover your
> data.
>
From magnesium.net I followed up to-list that this 2001
server had n floppy. So, until I can beg a favor, and swap
in a floppy, I'm totally wedged. --By the way, it's time to
have a giveaway, so anyone in the metro Seattle area, if you
areinterested in some seriously heavy-duty but slow HP Kayaks,
drop a line.
Greg: I was able to get to the boot screen and hit "4" [?]
or "5"--whatever thr alt menu is. I typed
boot /boot/kernel.old
and for a few secs thought that would work. But upon hitting
return/[Ehter], things reset. And-or back to the original
fatal trap 18.
This may have been a FS err because I was pushing the box
pretty hard. I was doing a portsupgrade and
installing/reinstalling lots of stuff.
Whenever I can get somebody to temp swap in a floppy I'll
try FreeSBIE. MOst of my data is public or personal junk,
but to my amazement, my last backups of taoEtc.tgz was
(*cringe*) late '01.
gary
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> Perfection is just a word I use occasionally with mustard.
> --Atom Powers--
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Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.thought.org Public service Unix
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