Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 13:51:52 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Andrew McNaughton <andrew@squiz.co.nz> Cc: Josh <josh2@marvin.albury.net.au>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: AAARGH! failure to boot. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980429135050.13203E-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <v02120d03b165d81b45d5@[203.96.56.186]>
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On Fri, 24 Apr 1998, Andrew McNaughton wrote: > --------------------------------------- > Fixit# fsck -n /mnt2/dev/wd0s3 > ** ?mnt2/dev/rwd0s3 (NO WRITE) > > CANNOT READ: BLK 16 > CONTINUE? yes > > THE FOLLOWING DISK SECTORS COULD NOT BE READ: 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, > 23, 24 > , 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, That is really suspicious. I suspect something overwrote the front end of your drive, or you have a big gouge in the disk surface :( You might as well try -y, and run it several times. If it's truly dead then a reformat will prove it. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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