Date: Mon, 15 Dec 1997 10:22:42 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Andrew Stevens <andrew@log.on.ca> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: /sbin/init: error 20 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971215102110.292D-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <m0xgwRS-0004AhC@logon.log.on.ca>
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On Sat, 13 Dec 1997, Andrew Stevens wrote: > -- [ From: Andrew Stevens * EMC.Ver #2.5.02 ] -- > > Greetings: > > Over the past couple of days, my FreeBSD box has been giving me strange > error messages, and now my machine won't boot. Below is a summary of what > has been happening: > > Two nights ago, I mounted my DOS hard drive and a DOS zip disk for the > first time. I then attempted to use find on my system to find a file. > While find was working and my BSD disk was grinding away, error messages > began appearing. I didn't think much of them at the time and didn't bother > to write them down, but I believe files on my BSD drive were listed, and > beside them, "bad file descriptor". Did you get the message Warning: root filesystem is not a multiple of clusersize in length when you mounted the DOS disk? > The next time I tried to boot, device probing went smoothly, but after > "changing device to sd0a" was displayed, the following lines appeared: > > exec /sbin/init: error 20 > exec /sbin/oinit: error 20 > exec /sbin/init.bak: error 20 > > And my computer froze at this point. I tried disabling everything which > conflicts with ep0, but it didn't help matters. (using de0 as my ethernet > port). Any suggestions? That is a Bad Thing. Your DOS hard drive must have had a busted FS on it and the msdosfs code went berzerk and overwrote your FreeBSD root filesystem. You'll need to reinstall FreeBSD. 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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