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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!news.umbc.edu!nobody From: odysseas@cs.umbc.edu (Odysseas Pentakalos) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Problem with NetBSD 0.9 Date: 4 Sep 1994 16:58:11 -0400 Organization: University of Maryland, Baltimore County Lines: 31 Message-ID: <34dcd3INN1p9@retriever.cs.umbc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: retriever.cs.umbc.edu Hello, I have been running NetBSD 0.9 for about six months with no problems (really happy user), and today I managed to crash my system somehow. I was doing a % tar tvf /dev/fd0b and it tried to interrupt it by pressing Control-C and Control-\. It never stopped and when I tried to open another window and kill that process it wouldn't let me do it. So I reset the machine. After that, once it goes past reading the kernel from the disk and initializing the devices it stops. I booted with a floppy and checked the filesystems but they seemed OK. Mounting the filesystems with the floppy and looking around does not show me anything obvious. Does anyone have any suggestions about what has happened ? What is the next step of the boot process once the kernel is loaded and the devices have been initialized ? Thanks a lot in advance for any help. Odysseas /-----------------------------------------------------------------------------\ Odysseas Pentakalos University of Maryland Balto. County Computer Science Department 5401 Wilkens Ave. Baltimore, Maryland 21228 odysseas@cs.umbc.edu \-----------------------------------------------------------------------------/