From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 18 20:32:35 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz (pinnacle.internet.co.nz [210.48.55.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBB0B14C13 for ; Sun, 18 Apr 1999 20:32:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonc@pinnacle.co.nz) Received: from kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz (kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz [202.37.163.2]) by kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA22977; Mon, 19 Apr 1999 15:26:06 +1200 (NZST) Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 15:26:06 +1200 (NZST) From: Jonathan Chen To: Mongoos411@aol.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: They just shut off the computer while FreeBSD was Running. In-Reply-To: <456de2bb.244bdfb5@aol.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 18 Apr 1999 Mongoos411@aol.com wrote: > have no idea what unix is. They just thought it was dos. Well, they > couldn't get out of it, they JUST TURNED THE POWER OFF. When I turned it > back on, I got a continuous flood of messages. So any ideas on how to go > about solving this? The automatic reboot will attempt invoke fsck in an attempt to fix the file-system until it is in a usable state. Just let the messages run right thru'. It *should* complete successfully (unless you're *very* unlucky) - after some time; just check that you're not getting looping messages. Cheers. Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- When everything's coming your way, you're in the wrong lane. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message