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- From: steveh@zentronics.ca (Steve Haller)
- Subject: Re: Problems with fsck root disk
- Organization: Zentronics Head Office, Mississauga, Ontario, CANADA
- Distribution: comp
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 18:51:12 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov12.185112.2952@zentronics.ca>
- References: <1992Nov11.024057.22835@cognos.com>
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- In article <1992Nov11.024057.22835@cognos.com> maklinm@cognos.com (Max Maklin) writes:
- >I have recently down an upgrade (not an install) from
- >ODT 1.1 to ODT 2.0. I was running Digital's enhanced
- >MPX (DEC MPX 1.2) and upgraded to SCO MPX 2.0. This
- >update was applied to an applicationDEC 433MP.
- >
- >Everything seemed to go well, except the machine hangs
- >just before printing out the maintenance mode prompt.
- >I believe this is where it issues an fsck /dev/root.
- >If I hit DELETE (SIGINT key) I finally do get the prompt.
- >The problem is that I can not fsck the root disk.
- >
- ># /etc/fsck -b /dev/root
- >
- >just hangs. No wonder I am hanging on reboots. The
- >device entry for the root disk is:
- >
-
- Max, see my previous posting (just posted) about an ODT 1.1 --> ODT 2.0
- upgrade I did on a 433MP where the root disk was on the CPU SCSI
- and not on the adaptec.
-
- Hope this helps.
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- Steve Haller steveh@zentronics.ca / uunet.ca!zentron!steveh
- Systems Engineer, Zentronics Toronto, "Authorized SCO APC"
- Tel: (416) 507-2600
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