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- From: paul@seer.demon.co.uk (Paul Lynch)
- Subject: Re: Can someone help me with this bootup problem?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec19.171918.6655@seer.demon.co.uk>
- Sender: paul@seer.demon.co.uk
- Organization: P & L Systems
- References: <1992Dec18.174527.27414@athena.mit.edu>
- Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 17:19:18 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec18.174527.27414@athena.mit.edu> krtamura@athena.mit.edu
- (Kohichi R Tamura) writes:
- > I just received my 3.0 upgrade. It was booting fine off the external
- hard
- > drive, but I took it back in because the place that did it for me didn't
- > include NeXTCD and everything in it. After he put that on, I took it
- home
- > and tried to boot up and now it seems to hang at the point "Checking
- System
- > Files". It just sits there and I can't see any exchange (flashing
- light)
- > with the external drive. I thought maybe it was just going to take a
- while
- > but it stayed that way for over 10 minutes.
- >
-
- It is almost certainly doing an fsck; the way to verify this is to force a
- verbose boot (interrupt duing 'Testing System' with RightCommand-~ and
- type bsd), and watch the messages.
-
- If so, 10 minutes might well not be long enough.
-
- Paul
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