Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 18:25:35 +0000 From: Benjamin Sobotta <mayday@gmx.net> To: Marty Landman <MLandman@face2interface.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: unplanned reboot failed Message-ID: <1105467935.671.26.camel@rr> In-Reply-To: <6.2.0.14.0.20050111115112.048248f0@mail.face2interface.com> References: <6.2.0.14.0.20050111090804.047088d8@mail.face2interface.com> <1105465334.671.20.camel@rr> <6.2.0.14.0.20050111115112.048248f0@mail.face2interface.com>
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Hi again. I'm not really sure whether you can run fsck from sysinstall. I never tried. But if I'm not mistaken there is something like an repair mode listed with an emergency shell. You might try that. Ben On Tue, 2005-01-11 at 11:54 -0500, Marty Landman wrote: > At 12:42 PM 1/11/2005, Benjamin Sobotta wrote: > > >Hmm seems to me like your filesystem got damaged. No need to make boot > >floppies. What I would do is use a live CD and boot and then from there > >run fsck to repair. > > Thanks for the reply Ben. However I'm unable to boot from the mini-iso for > some reason. Set cdrom to bootable from bios setup, and it won't take. I > can set bios to boot from floppy and then it does, albeit tried a w98 > floppy cuz don't have my fbsd floppies anymore. > > But, can I run fsck from the sysinstall screen? Because that's what I > eventually get thrown into after those error msgs. Except nothing seems to > worth viz. the "Couldn't create directory /tmp/.doc: Read-only file system" > msg. > > Marty > > >On Tue, 2005-01-11 at 09:18 -0500, Marty Landman wrote: > > > Four days ago I moved some stuff around on my /root dir; yesterday my box > > > rebooted itself... probably because of a power blink since other boxes did > > > the same. > > > > > > Now it won't reboot; the kernel starts, a msg display very quickly then I > > > get a box showing > > > > > > ------------- Message -------------- > > > Loading module aac.ko failed > > > Adaptec AAC RAID > > > ------------------------(100%)--------- > > > > > > When I <cr> past this box get a box saying > > > > > > ------------------------------------ Message > > -------------------------------- > > > Couldn't create directory /tmp/.doc: Read-only file system > > > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------(100%)--------- > > > > > > > > > What can I do from this point? Before this problem became apparent I > > > noticed that sendmail appeared to be gone from my system. I've apparently > > > messed up some critical paths, and wonder if it might be better to just > > > rebuild this sandbox from the mini-iso... just need to recreate the > > > bootable floppies in that case, right? > > > > > > Marty > > > > > > > > > Marty Landman, Face 2 Interface Inc. 845-679-9387 > > > Search & Sort Easily: http://face2interface.com/Products/FormATable.shtml > > > Web Installed Formmail: http://face2interface.com/formINSTal > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > > >-- > >Benjamin Sobotta <mayday@gmx.net> > > > >_______________________________________________ > >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > Marty Landman, Face 2 Interface Inc. 845-679-9387 > Search & Sort Easily: http://face2interface.com/Products/FormATable.shtml > Web Installed Formmail: http://face2interface.com/formINSTal > -- Benjamin Sobotta <mayday@gmx.net>
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