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Date:      Fri, 20 Apr 2001 16:23:09 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Reverend K Kanno <presence@churchofinformationwarfare.org>
To:        Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>
Cc:        scsi@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: boot spinner 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0104201620180.84571-100000@shell-3.enteract.com>
In-Reply-To: <200104202110.f3KLAdf02644@mass.dis.org>

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On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, Mike Smith wrote:

> > I've got a 4.3-RC box that rebooted for some unknown reason. At this point it
> > will boot only as far as the third bar in the boot spinner:
> > 
> > - \ | (hangs here)
> > 
> > Is there a meaning behind each position as in each letter of LILO displayed
> > in lilo?
> 
> No, there isn't a special meaning.  It sounds like your disk BIOS is 
> really upset about something.
> 
> > Hardware is a dell 2450 with an Adaptec 2100s RAID card.
> 
> What does the Adaptec RAID BIOS think about the current state of the 
> array?

It thinks it's fine. I setup another mirror set with a fresh install, then
remounted the first mirror set. There is much file corruption on the failed
set. I'm going to guess this is a hardware issue as the machine was ok for a
week then went down with nothing in the logs.

KEN


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