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- From: shair@barolo.cso.uiuc.edu (Bob Shair)
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- Subject: Re: EMERGENCY!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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- Date: 12 Nov 92 22:53:22 GMT
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- jmmannin@eos.ncsu.edu (JAMES MCCOTTER MANNING) writes:
-
- >PLEASE HELP!
- >I can't boot off of rootvg, and when I booted off of floppy
- >and tried to getrootfs, I get the error that /dev/hd4 needs
- >64k of free space, and that I should delete files until I have
- >that much free, but without root mounted, I don't know how to get
- >to /dev/hd4 (/usr) to delete anything.
- >HELP!!!!!
- >jmm
-
- /dev/hd4 is the root (/) filesystem on every AIX V3 system I've used.
- If it's not on yours, the getrootfs script is perhaps assuming that it
- is. Try this to free up some space in /
-
- 1) Put key in service mode and boot from diskettes.
- 2) Choose Option #4 to get the minimal shell.
- 3) Run "rm -f /usr/lpp/bosinst/*" to free up some space in the
- ram filesystem.
- 4) Run "importvg -y rootvg -f hdiskX", where hdiskX is the name of
- the external disk.
- 5) Run "varyonvg -f rootvg". Ignore the error that is reported.
- 6) Run "mount -o log=/dev/hd8 /dev/hd4 /mnt"
- 7) Run "cd /mnt". /mnt contains the filesystem that is root on your
- machine normally.
- 8) Remove files from /mnt to free the space needed to boot properly
- (use echo *, since 'ls' hasn't been mounted). The best candidates
- for deletion are smit.log and smit.script.
- --
-
- Bob Shair shair@vnet.ibm.com
- Scientific Computing Specialist SHAIR@UIUCVMD (bitnet)
- IBM Champaign
-