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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!cancer.vividnet.com!hunter.premier.net!news-res.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: LOCKED OUT!!! Date: 25 Aug 1996 13:45:00 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 30 Message-ID: <4vplcs$fth@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4vn2v7$fec@uuneo.neosoft.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E conrads@neosoft.com (Conrad Sabatier) wrote: > 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? The DOS file system implementation is known to have some serious problems, in particular for file systems that have been shrunk by FIPS. Boot single-user (-s at the boot prompt), run ``fsck -y'', followed by ``mount -a -t ufs''. I hope your file systems are not seriously damaged, so then you could edit /etc/fstab to exclude /dos again. Reboot. I think if you backup your entire DOS partition, and reformat it (so it uses the correct clustersize which will also free you up a few wasted disk blocks), your chances for interoperability with FreeBSD are better. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)