From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 27 17:07:28 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id RAA11327 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 27 May 1996 17:07:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA11322 for ; Mon, 27 May 1996 17:07:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id RAA09692; Mon, 27 May 1996 17:05:53 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199605280005.RAA09692@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Help To: hey@tuns.ca (Yingjun (Ian) He) Date: Mon, 27 May 1996 17:05:53 -0700 (MST) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199605261938.MAA11110@freefall.freebsd.org> from "Yingjun (Ian) He" at May 26, 96 04:38:31 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I have been running FreeBSD 2.0 on my pentium system for 2 > years. Today, I cannot boot the system. The erro messages > are: > > /dev/rsd0a: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY > Automatic file system chek failed ... help! > ... > ... > ncr0 targ 0?: ERROR (80:1:0) (e0/e0) @ (18b77c:860b0000) > ncr0: restart (fatal error). > ncr0 targ 0: COMMAND FAILED (9 ff ff) @f019ce60. > device bad > Automatic reboot in 15 seconds - > Rebooting ... > > That's all I have on my screen and the system halt. When I tried to reset > the system again, I got the same problem. > > During the bootting of the system, I have no chance to interrupt it to > do anything. > > Please advice me what should I do in order to access the hadr disk to get > all my files out if the system have to reinstalled. Try -s at the boot prompt. If you can't get a boot prompt (it may be that old), then you will need to boot off the emergency boot floppy to fsck /. If you didn't make one, you will need to make one (or get someone to make one for you -- I don't have any systems that old that aren't 1.x, sorry). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.