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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!news-peer.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news-lond.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: brian@anorak.coverform.lan (Brian Somers) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Can't boot FreeBSD - Sysinstall keeps coming up! Date: 15 Dec 1996 02:55:27 -0000 Organization: Coverform Ltd. Lines: 14 Sender: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk Message-ID: <58vpav$ilo@anorak.coverform.lan> References: <58qtkn$9n5@nyx10.cs.du.edu> Reply-To: brian%anorak.coverform.lan@awfulhak.demon.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.coverform.lan X-NNTP-Posting-Host: awfulhak.demon.co.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.8 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:32632 In article <58qtkn$9n5@nyx10.cs.du.edu>, thu@nyx10.cs.du.edu (Timothy Hu) writes: : I'm running FreeBSD 2.1.5R. Today, I tried "reboot", but it wouldn't : come up. The kernel loads, but Sysinstall keeps coming up. I can't seem : to get the system booted! Can anyone help? Sounds like a corrupt disk - try using a fixit floppy to mount your hard-disk and have a poke around. -- Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>, <brian@freebsd.org> <http://www.awfulhak.demon.co.uk/> Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour.... .