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Date: Fri, 21 Jun 1996 17:00:41 -0400
From: Dave Blizzard <blizzard@canoe.ca>
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Thanks for reading this message, you must get hundreds but... my BSD 
has broken once again and I need some help to resurrect the file 
system. Some background:
FreeBSD v2, 486 PC 33 mhz, Adaptec 1520/1522 SCSI Adapter, Quantum 
1080s 1042mb drive as drive 1 (drive 0 is an IDE drive exclusively 
Dos). I boot from a floppy and then boot the SCSI drive.

OK. For the third time now my system panics on boot and can't mount 
root. Using the fixit floppy, I have run "fsck -p /dev/rsd0" and the 
filesystem checks out with no errors. I have also run fsck with the -f 
option and no difference is seen. The partition information seems ok 
if I look at using the install procedure. I then reboot using the 
recommended "reboot -n".
After the fsck, I can "mount /dev/sd0 /" but the contents seem to be 
only the floppy.
Where am I going wrong? I suspect one of my kids may have started the 
system accidentally from a floppy and then halted the system but I 
can't see how that should destroy the SCSI drive.
My only recourse the first two times was to start from scratch but 
after 3 weeks of successful install ... (I even got PPP and sendmail 
to work).

>From Tearing my hair out in Toronto 
 
Dave Blizzard
blizzard@canoe.ca