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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!metro!metro!asstdc.scgt.oz.au!nsw.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!reuter.cse.ogi.edu!cs.uoregon.edu!news.uoregon.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.erols.net!agate!msunews!bg From: bg@cps.msu.edu (Boris Gelfand) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: request for help (fs crash) Date: 3 Sep 1996 05:08:23 GMT Organization: Michigan State University Lines: 39 Message-ID: <50geg7$13l8@msunews.cl.msu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: arctic.cps.msu.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] i'd like to start off by saying "damn! my disk crashed!". that out of the way, perhaps some kind soul can help; i have a (relatively) peculiar situation: i *just* finished installing and configuring 2.1.5R on my compaq aero subnote. i have 12MB ram and another 34MB swap. i was running X without a problem, and pc-card services to use my pcmcia modem. i was in X with 3 xterms open, running vi and man pages (in the middle of setting /etc/ppp) when one of my windows gave a short out of memory error. i then tried 'top' in one of my others, at which point everything went down as if i had power cycled the machine (including POST). upon trying to boot, the machine keeps looping and rebooting once it tries loading the kernel from disk. now, my problem: i can't use the fixit floppy because once the boot floppy loads, i'm unable to mount any more floppies. this is likely because the floppy is a pcmcia plug-in type and works on the first shot to boot but then fbsd doesn't get fdc0 registered correctly and it's all down-hill from there. the way i installed was to boot from the boot flop and then install from a small DOS partition that i have on my hard disk. can anyone recommend a 'unified' fixit floppy (with a kernel already onboard) that i can just boot? as i can't get to my fs, i still have no idea what actually went wrong to trash /. i'd also appreciate any hints on how to track down what sucked up 46+ MB of memory and made my machine crash so ungracefully. thanks in advance! please reply in both post and email. boris --------- email: <bg@cps.msu.edu> ask me a riddle and i reply: cottleston, cottleston, cottleston pie!