From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Apr 12 00:52:53 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id AAA07868 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 12 Apr 1996 00:52:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA07824 for ; Fri, 12 Apr 1996 00:52:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id JAA10589; Fri, 12 Apr 1996 09:51:40 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id JAA27277; Fri, 12 Apr 1996 09:51:40 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id JAA09481; Fri, 12 Apr 1996 09:51:17 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199604120751.JAA09481@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: unable to mount / To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 09:51:16 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: surfmwb@nhr.com (Mark Bernard) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199604120020.UAA16535@geneva.visi.net> from "Mark Bernard" at Apr 11, 96 08:20:52 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Mark Bernard wrote: > business..instead the kernel runs properly until it reaches mounting the /. > It reports the / was unmounted improperly and locks up. > > What can be done without a reload, if anything? An what can I do to make > the reload easier of Release 2.1? I've never done a complete load before. Your root file system seems to be hosed. Get the a copy of the fixit floppy (floppies/fixit.flp from the CDROM, use rawrite.exe as usual), boot the installation floppy, select F)ixit, and enter the fixit floppy. Try to fsck your /dev/rsd0a, or /dev/rwd0a (whatever holds your root f/s). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)