Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 20:39:42 +0100 (CET) From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <ruigrjer@start.nl> Subject: Re: Ick, Help! Booting problem? Message-ID: <XFMail.981116203942.asmodai@wxs.nl> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9811160846580.4440-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
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On 16-Nov-98 Doug White wrote: > On Sat, 14 Nov 1998, Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven wrote: >> This has never happened before, so I thought (Windows 95 thinking, I >> admit), well let's reboot the sucker then. OK, it all detected the >> devices and other things again, but at the point where it was supposed >> to come up with the login: prompt, I got /stand/sysinstall. > > The system will fault over to sysinstall if init is corrupted or missing. After using a disk/holographic shell I tried to ls /sbin/init and it gave me an error I cannot remember. > It sounds like your disk crashed. Yeah, wonder how/why though... I also verify media/low level format before using them, brand new disk too... >> OK, I thought, could be a glitch in CURRENT, so I tried rebooting with >> -s and that got me the same /stand/sysinstall! Also when I tried to >> 'Exit Install' I never got to rebooting, it just caught a lot of SIG >> 11's. > > .. or one of your SIMMs fried. Nah... I used to have SIMM problems until I got these new ones which are all tested... besides else I had to have them way sooner... >> Could I use a bootdisk to get to my partitions? But even if I do, I >> have no idea where the problem might lie... > > You'll have to reinstall to get init back. That's a conclusion I reached myself ;) Thanks anyway... Conclusion: reinstall minimal system, then make world from latest cvsup sources on one of my slices, plus made new kernel... All working again... --- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven/Asmodai asmodai(at)wxs.nl | Cum angelis et pueris, Junior Network/Security Specialist | fideles inveniamur *BSD & picoBSD: The Power to Serve... <http://www.freebsd.org>; To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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