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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!disco.iinet.net.au!wa.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!quack!quack.kfu.com!nsayer From: nsayer@quack.kfu.com (Nick Sayer) Subject: Anything wrong with 960323-SNAP? Message-ID: <nwIHdXt@quack.kfu.com> Sender: news@quack.kfu.com (0000-News(0000)) Organization: The Duck Pond public unix, +1 408 249 9630, log in as guest. Date: Wed, 14 Aug 1996 18:11:58 UTC Lines: 24 The 960323-SNAP installation I have here at work (since I don't use it for anything but CD worm burning, I haven't booted it up much) seems to have crapped all over its root partition. I had to boot the fixit setup, fsck (which threw away an awful lot of the root fs), and replace a bunch of missing stuff (including the kernel!). It's sort of back on its feet now, but I can't for the life of me figure out what happened. Was there anything in 960323-SNAP that was seriously wrong? I would think I would have seen any notices about it, but... The machine is a Compaq Deskpro XE 560. The drive is an IDE but it also has a AHA 1520 SCSI card for the worm burner. I was trying to set up a SCSI disk as a premastering volume. I halted the machine normally and then it started failing to boot (the spinning baton would freeze loading the kernel text). Solaris 2.5.1 works just fine on this machine. So much of /sbin got cleaned out I'll probably have to upgrade it to 960801 anyway (I fetched lots of files from home, which is running 960501)... -- Nick Sayer <nsayer@quack.kfu.com> | "Art thou bored?!" N6QQQ @ N0ARY.#NORCAL.CA.USA.NOAM | +1 408 249 9630, log in as 'guest' | -- Randy Savage URL: http://www.kfu.com/~nsayer/ | (spokesman for "Slim Jims")