From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 23 17:44:23 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA26067 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 23 Apr 1998 17:44:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from marvin.albury.net.au (marvin.albury.NET.AU [203.15.244.108]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA25863 for ; Thu, 23 Apr 1998 17:40:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from josh2@marvin.albury.net.au) Received: (from josh2@localhost) by marvin.albury.net.au (8.8.7/8.8.8) id KAA01757; Fri, 24 Apr 1998 10:44:29 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.1 [p0] on FreeBSD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1998 10:38:06 +1000 (EST) From: Josh To: (Andrew McNaughton) Subject: RE: AAARGH! failure to boot. Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi. I believe that you have a hard disk problem.... Disk 0x80 Cylinder 196394 Head 63 Sector 45 could well be cactus. :-( Not sure where you can find further info. If it wont boot then... You may try a floppy boot and fsck but I've never done it. On 24-Apr-98 Andrew McNaughton wrote: >I just rebooted my machine this morning rather than switch back >various network configuration stuff by hand, and it failed to boot. > >It asked me which OS to run, and then when I selected FreeBSD, it filled >the screen with this: > >Error: D:0x80 C:-196394 H:-63 S:-45 >Error: D:0x80 C:-196394 H:-63 S:-45 >Error: D:0x80 C:-196394 H:-63 S:-45 >Error: D:0x80 C:-196394 H:-63 S:-45 >Error: D:0x80 C:-196394 H:-63 S:-45 >What's failed? >where can I get information on recovery? >Any help really really really appreciated. > >Andrew McNaughton > > >DISCLAIMER: The Entire Physical Universe, Including Andrew McNaughton >This Message, May One Day Collapse Back into an ++64 4 389 6891 >Infinitesimally Small Space. Should Another Universe andrew@squiz.co.nz >Subsequently Re-emerge, the Validity of Statements http://www.squiz.co.nz >in This Message Cannot Be Guaranteed. http://www.newsroom.co.nz > > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message ---------------------------------- E-Mail: Josh Date: 24-Apr-98 Time: 10:38:06 This message was sent by XFMail ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message