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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.telstra.net!news.ci.com.au!metro!metro!inferno.mpx.com.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!newsxfer2.itd.umich.edu!agate!darkstar.UCSC.EDU!ruby.cse.ucsc.edu!not-for-mail From: eric@cse.ucsc.edu (Eric Rosen) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: Help please....reboots when changin /etc Date: 18 Feb 1996 17:40:37 -0800 Organization: Image Processing & Multimedia Lab (UC Santa Cruz) Lines: 8 Message-ID: <4g8kel$e6t@ruby.cse.ucsc.edu> References: <4g5bq4$gqm@news.mixcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: ruby.cse.ucsc.edu Your / filesystem is corrupted. You need to boot the machine single-user (interupt the boot process) and while / is mounted ready-only, run fsck on it. I've seen this happen a few times with the same symptoms -- any modifications to / causes a kernel panic. --Eric