Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 08:48:21 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <ruigrjer@start.nl> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ick, Help! Booting problem? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9811160846580.4440-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <s64d5b36.007@start.nl>
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On Sat, 14 Nov 1998, Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven wrote: > when I woke up this morning I wanted to dial in to my ISP to get my > mail. So I had ppp running in one window and just did a dial ISP. > Nothing happened. I looked at all the connectors, nothing weird. So I > 'quit'ted ppp and then started it again. Curiously enough I mentioned > that not enough inodes were available. > > This has never happened before, so I thought (Windows 95 thinking, I > admit), well let's reboot the sucker then. OK, it all detected the > devices and other things again, but at the point where it was supposed > to come up with the login: prompt, I got /stand/sysinstall. The system will fault over to sysinstall if init is corrupted or missing. It sounds like your disk crashed. > OK, I thought, could be a glitch in CURRENT, so I tried rebooting with > -s and that got me the same /stand/sysinstall! Also when I tried to > 'Exit Install' I never got to rebooting, it just caught a lot of SIG > 11's. .. or one of your SIMMs fried. > Could I use a bootdisk to get to my partitions? But even if I do, I > have no idea where the problem might lie... You'll have to reinstall to get init back. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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