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From: Zahemszky Gabor <zgabor@CoDe.hu>
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Subject: Re: Disk Biff [2.2.1-stable]
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org (FreeBSD questions)
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 1997 16:06:09 +0200 (MET DST)
Cc: amir@i33.com
In-Reply-To: <19970612111731.27738@i33.com> from "Amir Y. Rosenblatt" at "Jun 12, 97 11:17:31 am"
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> 
> Last night I heard my boot disk a Seagate ST32550W Baraccuda click and
> spin down.  The machine hung almost immediately (as it is often wont to do
> when anything on the scsi bus flakes).  I waited till the disk access
> light was off before powering down, letting it rest 10 seconds and
> powering it back up.  Upon bootup it claimed not to be able to find the
> kernel (even when I specified at the boot prompt to use 0:sd(0,a)/kernel).
> I booted up off my 2.2.1 boot floppy and attempted to mount the fixit disk
> I'd made from the 2.2.1 FIXIT.FLP image but it told me it couldn't mount
> it (it was not write-protected).  Usinf the partition and label manager on

Well, you don't have to mount FIXIT, but use the fixit menu from the
installation menu.  After it you have to switch floppies, and go!

Gabor

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