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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!news.wildstar.net!news.sdsmt.edu!news.mid.net!newsfeeder.gi.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!uuneo.neosoft.com!mypc From: conrads@neosoft.com (Conrad Sabatier) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: LOCKED OUT!!! Date: Sat, 24 Aug 96 14:15:19 GMT Organization: What? Me, organize? Lines: 31 Message-ID: <4vn2v7$fec@uuneo.neosoft.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 206.27.165.144 X-Newsreader: News Xpress 2.0 Beta #2 I've got a bit of a crisis here. Recently, I installed a second IDE hard drive and placed all of my FreeBSD (2.1.5) stuff on it (wd1, slave on first controller). Everything was fine until yesterday, when I decided to decompress my first (Win95, 1.6 gig, wd0) drive so that I could access all of the files on it from FreeBSD. I added an entry in fstab to mount it automatically at bootup under the node /dos. I think this is where the problem arose. I did a ls on it and got lots of weird filenames with lots of question marks and other strange characters. Then, when I tried to run ppp in an xterm window, I got an error message from ld.so about a bad magic number. Couldn't get ppp to run. Hmmm. I logged out of fvwm and left the machine sitting at the xdm login screen overnight. When I got up this morning, it was locked up. Had no choice but to power down and restart. This is where the crisis appeared. Now, at bootup, after the initial device scan, I get a warning that / was not properly dismounted and everything grinds to a halt. I never get anywhere even close to getting a login prompt. Could it be that mounting the huge DOS drive somehow corrupted my root file system? I really am not sure how to proceed at this point, as I can't even get into the system to try to remove the fstab entry for DOS. Even if I boot from a floppy, I'm not sure what exactly I need to do to cure this thing. What is this magic number thing that I got when I tried to run ppp? Everything else seemed to be working fine. In a word: HELP!!! -- Conrad Sabatier -- http://www.neosoft.com/~conrads/