From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Mar 20 10:19:35 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id KAA01863 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 20 Mar 1995 10:19:35 -0800 Received: from linux4nn.iaf.nl (root@linux4nn.iaf.nl [193.67.144.34]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id KAA01856 for ; Mon, 20 Mar 1995 10:19:30 -0800 Received: from uni4nn.iaf.nl (root@uni4nn.iaf.nl [193.67.144.33]) by linux4nn.iaf.nl (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id TAA09246; Mon, 20 Mar 1995 19:34:34 +0100 Received: by uni4nn.iaf.nl with UUCP id AA16120 (5.67b/IDA-1.5); Mon, 20 Mar 1995 19:16:42 +0200 Received: by iafnl.iaf.nl with UUCP id AA22903 (5.65c/IDA-1.4.4); Mon, 20 Mar 1995 18:57:21 +0100 Received: (from wilko@localhost) by yedi.iaf.nl (8.6.8/8.6.6) id TAA00782; Sun, 19 Mar 1995 19:44:36 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte Message-Id: <199503191844.TAA00782@yedi.iaf.nl> Subject: Re: Boot crash. To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Date: Sun, 19 Mar 1995 19:44:35 +1596657 (MET) Cc: Gieger@aol.com, hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199503190910.KAA08138@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Mar 19, 95 10:10:39 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL22] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 986 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > ... It reboots & comes up with the BSD boot screen along with the "Boot:" > > prompt. If I hit return, type '?', type '/kernal-c' > > or anything it locks up. Normally there is a little twirling "|" symbol > > but it just prints "|" and locks solid. My bios geometry matches BSD, I did > > write the boot code. > > Looks like nothing from your root file system is being found. Either > of the above commands is trying to read something from there (`?' > attempts to read the directory, and the other commands want to read > the kernel file). > cheers, J"org I had something similar once. In my case the first superblock was gone... Fortunately, that was all that was wrong.. Wilko _ __________________________________________________________________________ | / o / / _ Wilko Bulte email: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl |/|/ / / /( (_) Private FreeBSD site - Arnhem - The Netherlands --------------------------------------------------------------------------------