From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 15 10:22:54 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA21707 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 15 Dec 1997 10:22:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts8-line16.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA21702 for ; Mon, 15 Dec 1997 10:22:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id KAA00345; Mon, 15 Dec 1997 10:22:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 15 Dec 1997 10:22:42 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Andrew Stevens cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: /sbin/init: error 20 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 13 Dec 1997, Andrew Stevens wrote: > -- [ From: Andrew Stevens * EMC.Ver #2.5.02 ] -- > > Greetings: > > Over the past couple of days, my FreeBSD box has been giving me strange > error messages, and now my machine won't boot. Below is a summary of what > has been happening: > > Two nights ago, I mounted my DOS hard drive and a DOS zip disk for the > first time. I then attempted to use find on my system to find a file. > While find was working and my BSD disk was grinding away, error messages > began appearing. I didn't think much of them at the time and didn't bother > to write them down, but I believe files on my BSD drive were listed, and > beside them, "bad file descriptor". Did you get the message Warning: root filesystem is not a multiple of clusersize in length when you mounted the DOS disk? > The next time I tried to boot, device probing went smoothly, but after > "changing device to sd0a" was displayed, the following lines appeared: > > exec /sbin/init: error 20 > exec /sbin/oinit: error 20 > exec /sbin/init.bak: error 20 > > And my computer froze at this point. I tried disabling everything which > conflicts with ep0, but it didn't help matters. (using de0 as my ethernet > port). Any suggestions? That is a Bad Thing. Your DOS hard drive must have had a busted FS on it and the msdosfs code went berzerk and overwrote your FreeBSD root filesystem. You'll need to reinstall FreeBSD. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major