unplanned reboot failed

[Benjamin Sobotta]

Hi again.

I'm not really sure whether you can run fsck from sysinstall. I never
tried. But if I'm not mistaken there is something like an repair mode
listed with an emergency shell. You might try that.

Ben

On Tue, 2005-01-11 at 11:54 -0500, Marty Landman wrote:
> At 12:42 PM 1/11/2005, Benjamin Sobotta wrote:
> 
> >Hmm seems to me like your filesystem got damaged. No need to make boot 
> >floppies. What I would do is use a live CD and boot and then from there 
> >run fsck to repair.
> 
> Thanks for the reply Ben. However I'm unable to boot from the mini-iso for 
> some reason. Set cdrom to bootable from bios setup, and it won't take. I 
> can set bios to boot from floppy and then it does, albeit tried a w98 
> floppy cuz don't have my fbsd floppies anymore.
> 
> But, can I run fsck from the sysinstall screen? Because that's what I 
> eventually get thrown into after those error msgs. Except nothing seems to 
> worth viz. the "Couldn't create directory /tmp/.doc: Read-only file system" 
> msg.
> 
> Marty
> 
> >On Tue, 2005-01-11 at 09:18 -0500, Marty Landman wrote:
> > > Four days ago I moved some stuff around on my /root dir; yesterday my box
> > > rebooted itself... probably because of a power blink since other boxes did
> > > the same.
> > >
> > > Now it won't reboot; the kernel starts, a msg display very quickly then I
> > > get a box showing
> > >
> > > ------------- Message --------------
> > > Loading module aac.ko failed
> > > Adaptec AAC RAID
> > > ------------------------(100%)---------
> > >
> > > When I <cr> past this box get a box saying
> > >
> > > ------------------------------------ Message 
> > --------------------------------
> > > Couldn't create directory /tmp/.doc: Read-only file system
> > > 
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------(100%)---------
> > >
> > >
> > > What can I do from this point? Before this problem became apparent I
> > > noticed that sendmail appeared to be gone from my system. I've apparently
> > > messed up some critical paths, and wonder if it might be better to just
> > > rebuild this sandbox from the mini-iso... just need to recreate the
> > > bootable floppies in that case, right?
> > >
> > > Marty
> > >
> > >
> > > Marty Landman, Face 2 Interface Inc. 845-679-9387
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> Marty Landman, Face 2 Interface Inc. 845-679-9387
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