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Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:12:20 -0800 (PST)
From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl>
cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <ruigrjer@start.nl>
Subject: Re: Ick, Help! Booting problem?
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On Mon, 16 Nov 1998, Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote:

> 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...

Sounds like an initial failure .. warranty replacement.

Doug White                               
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