From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 13 10:37:51 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA07226 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 13 Dec 1997 10:37:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from logon.log.on.ca (root@log.on.ca [205.207.183.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA07221 for ; Sat, 13 Dec 1997 10:37:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from andrew@log.on.ca) Received: from [205.207.183.41](really [205.207.183.41]) by logon.log.on.ca via sendmail with smtp id for ; Sat, 13 Dec 97 13:37:34 -0500 (EST) (Smail-3.1.92 1996-Mar-19 #2 built 1996-Apr-17) Message-Id: To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Subject: /sbin/init: error 20 Date: Sat, 13 Dec 97 13:35:26 -0500 From: Andrew Stevens X-Mailer: E-Mail Connection v2.5.03 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk -- [ From: Andrew Stevens * EMC.Ver #2.5.02 ] -- Greetings: Over the past couple of days, my FreeBSD box has been giving me strange error messages, and now my machine won't boot. Below is a summary of what has been happening: Two nights ago, I mounted my DOS hard drive and a DOS zip disk for the first time. I then attempted to use find on my system to find a file. While find was working and my BSD disk was grinding away, error messages began appearing. I didn't think much of them at the time and didn't bother to write them down, but I believe files on my BSD drive were listed, and beside them, "bad file descriptor". The next time I tried to boot, device probing went smoothly, but after "changing device to sd0a" was displayed, the following lines appeared: exec /sbin/init: error 20 exec /sbin/oinit: error 20 exec /sbin/init.bak: error 20 And my computer froze at this point. I tried disabling everything which conflicts with ep0, but it didn't help matters. (using de0 as my ethernet port). Any suggestions? Thanks for all your help - I don't know what I'd do without you guys! Take Care, Andrew Stevens.