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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news.dacom.co.kr!usenet.seri.re.kr!news.postech.ac.kr!usenet.kornet.nm.kr!agate!howland.erols.net!EU.net!usenet2.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!usenet1.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!mail2news.demon.co.uk!bnochd.croughton.af.mil From: "Scot W. Hetzel" <hetzels@croughton.af.mil> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: LOCKED OUT!!! Date: Sun, 25 Aug 1996 10:01:29 +0100 Lines: 76 Message-ID: <199608251102.LAA18769@email.croughton.af.mil> X-NNTP-Posting-Host: bnochd.croughton.af.mil X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet Mail 4.70.1155 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mail2News-Path: [131.56.128.2]!bnochd.croughton.af.mil The Files that you are seeing on your DOS mounted Slice (partition) are the short filenames (8 character + 3 char ext) that Windows 95 creates in order to be compatible with the FAT filesystem and with older Windows programs that do not understand long filenames. When you shut down a Unix machine it needs to save any changes that are made to the file system. When you power'd down the system it didn't update the second copy of the file system tables. Upon reboot FreeBSD warned you that the system wasn't properly shutdown. Does it actualy grind to a halt or does it ask you for a path to your shell, inorder for you to manually run the fsck (File System Check Utility)? If it asks for your shell, just hit enter (this puts the system into single user mode). At the prompt, type "fsck". It should then check all file systems and make the nessecary corrections. When it has finished type "reboot". This should reboot the system and get your LOGIN prompt back. Scot W. Hetzel ---------- > From: Conrad Sabatier <conrads@neosoft.com> > Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc > Subject: LOCKED OUT!!! > Date: Saturday, August 24, 1996 3:15 PM > > 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/ >