Re: How to recover a root partition with damaged boot blocks

2023-04-06 Thread Thomas Mueller
> things to do: > - reinstall bootxx_ffsvN -- make sure you're installing the right > ffsvN. you can use "dumpfs | head -2", and it should > say FFSv1 or FFSv2 here. that's "installboot" that you may have > already done, but perhaps used the wrong one? > - re-copy /boot. cp

Re: How to recover a root partition with damaged boot blocks

2023-04-05 Thread Lloyd Parkes
On 5/04/23 18:00, matthew green wrote: ps see "man 7 entropy" for how to fix the problem you observed. FWIW I have PR 57254 in Gnats that provides a patch to /etc/rc.d/entropy so that whenever the system boots with insufficient entropy appropriate messages are logged. It doesn't change

re: How to recover a root partition with damaged boot blocks

2023-04-05 Thread matthew green
things to do: - reinstall bootxx_ffsvN -- make sure you're installing the right ffsvN. you can use "dumpfs | head -2", and it should say FFSv1 or FFSv2 here. that's "installboot" that you may have already done, but perhaps used the wrong one? - re-copy /boot. cp /usr/mdec/boot / -

How to recover a root partition with damaged boot blocks

2023-04-04 Thread Thomas Mueller
How do you recover a partition with boot blocks rendered nonbootable? There was a split-second power outage during a high-wind event that damaged the root partition, rendered it nonbootable. I built the computer in June 2011, one of the early UEFI-capable motherboards. I was able to recover