frenzy foreva

Got a shock. Reinstalled Windows — the virus I’d caught was being found and cleaned poorly, and I didn’t feel bad about wiping it. Installed onto the same partition as before, and almost lost FreeBSD — on boot it stops at mounting root and that’s it. With a crowbar and some choice words, it turned out that the filesystems used to be mounted from /dev/ad4s4*, but now those partitions show up as /dev/ad4s2*. Why that happened — no idea. Apparently Windows wiped something and FreeBSD started numbering slices differently. I managed to mount root, but then it turned out that neither single-user mode nor the emergency shell on the first installation disc has an editor, so there’s nothing to fix fstab with. Good thing Frenzy was lying around somewhere — dear old friend! Thanks to technix for that wonderful product! Went off to catch my breath — no work passwords, no certificates, no keys, absolutely nothing had been backed up. Shame on my gray hairs! That was a pretty effective wake-up call…..