Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 18:47:10 -0500 From: "G. Adam Stanislav" <adam@whizkidtech.net> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Help, I can't boot FreeBSD anymore Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.20001018184710.00923eb0@mail85.pair.com>
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Hello, Brian, I was wondering if you could help me here: I was working on some FreeBSD software (called tabs), and wanted to test its output when called 4 billion times. I typed: tabs 9999999999 > /dev/null It was supposed to write 4 bil tabs to stdout, redirected to /dev/null. After a while, I interrupted it with ^C, and did cd /dev; ls -lad null (as root). To my surprise, null was actually a huge file filled with tabs. I deleted it (rm null), then I did ln -s zero null. After a while I had to go, so I typed shutdown -p now, and turned the computer off when the shutdown was completed. The problem is, I cannot boot now. The boot process goes fine until it writes: /dev/rwd0s2e: 218 files, 5205 used, 55018 free (42 frags, 6872 blocks, 0.1% fragmentation) Then it just keeps accessing the hard drive (at least the LED is on) forever. After about 10 minutes I just turned it off, booted Windows, and have no idea what to do? Can you help? This is FreeBSD 3.1. Thanks, Adam P.S. Please CC replies directly to me: I am not a questions subscriber. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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