From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Jan 25 19: 3:25 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from thelab.hub.org (SHW1-154.accesscable.net [24.71.144.154]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70E6137B401; Thu, 25 Jan 2001 19:03:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (scrappy@localhost) by thelab.hub.org (8.11.2/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f0Q314K30200; Thu, 25 Jan 2001 23:01:04 -0400 (AST) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) X-Authentication-Warning: thelab.hub.org: scrappy owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 23:01:04 -0400 (AST) From: The Hermit Hacker To: Cc: Subject: Read error on booting system ... Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Morning all ... I have a 4.x system running on an old ALR server ... EISA bus, etc ... the drives are brand new QUANTUM Atlas V's ... the controller is an Adaptec controller per 3 drives (6 drives total) ... This evening, I got a call from the office that, when booting the machine, it gives a 'Read error', so I went in and tried a few things I could think of ... Finished off with putting in a boot floppy, getting to the 'boot:' prompt and trying to boot from there, and nadda ... lsdev shows the hard drives, and file systems, with the kernel file system being disk1s1a: ... how should I try and boot from there? 'boot disk1s1a:/kernel'? Marc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scrappy Systems Administrator @ hub.org primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message