Date: Sun, 30 Mar 1997 13:33:37 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Guy Silliman <gws@eclipse.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: invalid format! HELP!!!! Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.970330133204.242q-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <199703290539.AAA20080@mail.eclipse.net>
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On Sat, 29 Mar 1997, Guy Silliman wrote: > Hello.. > Been a while since I needed help... but this one is really hitting > hard. Over the last 24hours I notice my 2.1.5 box halting with some kind > of error trap that brings up the high intensity white type and attempts a > reboot (I say attempts cause my AMD 5x86 chip is not handling the reboot > signal since the get-go). > > Well, evidently the problem esculated itself, see now at boot time, I > get an error when fbsd first attempts to read the boot drive for the > kernel. It says "invalid format!" and then tries again and again... Looks like your disk is corrupted. get & make the fixit image, boot the install floppy, select 'fixit', and cross over to the fixit floppy. mount / and /var, then look at /var/log/messages and see if you can find any specific errors. What kind of disks are in this machine? Do you do 'shutdown' before shutting off the machine? Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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