From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 10 12:46:26 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA22700 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 10 Aug 1998 12:46:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from imo11.mx.aol.com (imo11.mx.aol.com [198.81.17.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA22690 for ; Mon, 10 Aug 1998 12:46:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Gaylefitz@aol.com) From: Gaylefitz@aol.com Received: from Gaylefitz@aol.com by imo11.mx.aol.com (IMOv14_b1.1) id HEBSa04179 for ; Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:45:41 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3cde64cd.35cf4de6@aol.com> Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:45:41 EDT To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mime-Version: 1.0 Subject: freebsd 2.2.2 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL 3.0 for Windows 95 sub 57 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have a small internet server running on freebsd 2.2.2 on 1998 08 09 at about 1730, a message was displayed that said "shutting down at 1800 hrs" according to a person logged into the server. i was not here, and did not see the exact wording or if it even presented a reason for shutting down. today, when i came in to work with the server, i found that it would not boot, saying that it could not find the /bin/sh file. it said "File or directory doesn't exist" and then asked me for an alternate pathname for the shell specified in /etc/rc I tried several different shells (bash, csh, sh, etc...) and none of them worked. i got onto #FreeBSD on EFNET running through my secondary DNS and an individual there said to download the boot and fixit disk images for FreeBSD 2.2.7 i did so, and the boot disk will not boot, halting at "ep0 not found at 0x300" just before the warning about /bin/sh, there is a line saying WARNING: / Not properly dismounted. i would just as soon not have to reformat all of my drives and send them off to data recovery labs...is there anything you can suggest? thanks- mark, s.admin, cyberhall To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message