From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 16 18:20:07 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id SAA23577 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 16 May 1996 18:20:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from franklin.cris.com (franklin.cris.com [199.3.12.31]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA23536 for ; Thu, 16 May 1996 18:20:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from darius.cris.com (darius.cris.com [199.3.12.32]) by franklin.cris.com (8.7.5/(96/05/02 2.34)) id VAA17771; Thu, 16 May 1996 21:19:20 -0400 (EDT) [1-800-745-2747 The Concentric Network] Received: from chad.gaianet.net (chad.gaianet.net [206.171.98.52]) by darius.cris.com (8.7.3) id UAA27001; Wed, 15 May 1996 20:33:33 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199605160033.UAA27001@darius.cris.com> X-Sender: zoogy@pop3.cris.com (Unverified) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Wed, 15 May 1996 17:34:18 -0400 To: questions@freebsd.org From: zoogy@cris.com (Chad Shackley) Subject: FreeBSD not starting X-Mailer: Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Today I went to login to the more problematic of my 2 freebsd machines, and it told me something like too many processes or not enough processes or something. I had never seen that before. I tried to login again and the machine hung, so I rebooted it. When it tried to come back up, it automatically started the sysinstall program, and now every time it comes up, that's what it does. I used a fixit disk, and managed to fsck and mount the other partitions (/ /usr and /var). The files are intact, and the partitions are mountable. My question is how do I fix it to allow it to boot up normally from the hard drive? Thanks. Chad