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- From: dent@cwis.unomaha.edu (David B. Caplinger)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
- Subject: Dead A/UX box...
- Message-ID: <dent.724142816@cwis>
- Date: 12 Dec 92 06:46:56 GMT
- Sender: news@news.unomaha.edu (UNO Network News Server)
- Organization: University of Nebraska at Omaha
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- Hi all,
-
- I just managed to kill my A/UX box and was wondering if anyone had
- any suggestions to help me recover it before I do something rash
- (accidentally or otherwise) and wind up having to install from scratch. :-)
-
- My system is a Mac II, upgraded with the "FDHD Upgrade" kit (so it has
- IIx ROMs in essence), a DayStar Digital PowerCard 030 (33MHz), 8 MB of RAM,
- an Apple (i.e. Quantum) 80MB internal at SCSI 0 that boots System 7.01, and
- an external 300MB CDC Wren-IV at SCSI 6 that has a 40MB Mac partition,
- the "normal" A/UX 3.0 partitions, and an "A/UX-Free" partition that is
- the /users filesystem when the system is running.
-
- Considering that this is kind of a Frankenstein-esque monster built from
- the parts of several other machines, I suppose I should have been content
- that it worked at all, but naturally I decided to add another 80MB (older
- Apple/Quantum 1/2-height). I managed to get the new 80 to work fine as
- an all-Mac drive at SCSI 1 (and it fits inside the II case with the other 80
- too), so then I decided to reformat it and make it available for A/UX.
-
- I didn't have the Apple formatter handy (I forget what it's called) but
- I have FWB's Hard Disk Toolkit, so I decided to use that. I reformatted
- the drive, and put all of the free space in what HDT called "A/UX random fs"
- partition. (I assumed that this was the equiv. of an "extra" partition,
- not Eschatology or swap or whatever). After that, I rebooted System 7
- again and launched the A/UX Startup... the normal startup progress box
- appeared and right at the point where the dialog disappears, then reappears
- saying "Launching..." instead of "Checking..." (is this before the button
- changes to "Messages"?), it disappeared and never came back. I gave it
- about 5 minutes before I started to panic. I rebooted and tried again with
- the same results.
-
- I rebooted again, launched A/UX Startup again, and clicked "Cancel" so I
- could get into the standalone mode. "ls" reveals that the filesystem
- is still out there (thank goodness), but at this point I have no idea
- what to do to try to figure out what happened and how to fix it. Can anyone
- that's more A/UX-experienced offer any advice? I'm tempted to try to force
- it to recover from the Eschatology partition, but I had a bad experience
- a while back where that destroyed my entire file system. (It did /boot/
- however, so I guess the recovery did what it thought it was supposed to do..)
-
- Based on that bad experience, I'm hesitant to go any further without some
- insight into what to look for, what to try, etc.
-
- Thanks in advance for any help you may be able to provide!
-
- - Dave Caplinger
- dent@loria.omahug.org (A/UX -- or at least I hope so)
- dent@cwis.unomaha.edu
-