On Sun, 7 Aug 2011, Ted Unangst wrote:
On Mon, Aug 08, 2011, Michael Treibton wrote:
is there a cleverer way of doing this? i just do not have the
infrastructure here to attempt a serial capture, despite the
well-documented instructions in the OBSD docs. i can get the output
you want, although because the installer doesn't have scp or anything,
i have no means of copying these files.
is there another means at my disposal to get these files off?
You booted the installer somehow, right? Boot from that disk to the
boot> prompt, then boot hd1:/bsd or hd0:/bsd or something as appropriate.
If you can boot from the install CD, try at the bootloader prompt:
boot> boot /4.9/i386/bsd -a -s
replace i386 with amd64 and bsd with bsd.rd if needed (there is no BIOS on
other platforms, isn't it?), watch what your external drive is (possibly
sd0), and enter your root and swap partitions (sd0a and sd0b in that
case). After you verify that your disk as recognised by the kernel match
your /etc/fstab, you can exit the single user shell and even go multiuser.
Then you will have anything you need for report, diagnostics and possibly
for repair too.
Regards,
David
