*BSD News Article 92118


Return to BSD News archive

Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!cs.mu.OZ.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.mrtc.org!news.he.net!uwm.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.erols.net!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!nntp.uio.no!nntp.se.dataphone.net!solace!mn6.swip.net!seunet!news2.swip.net!nike.volvo.se!cyklop.volvo.se!peter
From: peter@cyklop.volvo.se (peter hakanson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: BSD Crash
Date: 25 Mar 1997 09:51:12 GMT
Organization: Volvo Corp.
Lines: 37
Message-ID: <5h876g$1eq@nike.volvo.se>
References: <5h6mbm$eg4@viking.ties.k12.mn.us>
NNTP-Posting-Host: cyklop.volvo.se
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2]
Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:6481

Sound to me that you harddisk has gone for lunch (or 
dinner :-)

Peter h
rdurkee@minn.net wrote:
: Over the weekend our BSD (2.0.1) machine
: crashed.  It did not allow log-ons so I was forced
: to reboot.

: At boot it said:

: loading /boot ...

: Then stopped.   I was able to boot using floppies but when
: I attempted to mount the hard drive I get:

: device not configured

: The disksetup utility also gives the same error.

: I have a current backup of the system but I get "device
: not configured" when I try to use restore -i.  (Then again
: there is nothing to restore to if I cannot mount the hard drive.)

: Any suggestions?

: Russ
: rdurkee@minn.net





--
--
<peter.devnull@cyklop.volvo.se> (remove ".devnull" before use!)
Peter Hakanson  VolvoData Dep 2580 phone +46 31 66 74 27