On Tue, 21 Sep 1999, Brent Fulgham wrote: > > I upgraded to the new packages on the debian mirrors (from > > sep 07?). After upgrading and rebooting, everything worked > > nice, but from the second boot onwards, the boot process > > freezes right after the partition check. How do I tinker > > with my Hurd files to fix this problem? > > > I experienced the same problem. In my case, it seems to be > due to a slowly failing disk drive. I would recommend booting > to a Linux rescue disk, running `fsck -c -f` on the root > partition (Hurd) and repair any problems. > > This should allow you to boot. > > How old is your disk drive?..... :-\
Thanks for the advice; The drive is pretty old, and fsck -c -f indeed revealed a bunch of errors that were fixed. However, the Hurd still won't boot.. -- Pontus Lidman, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Development & support manager No matter how cynical you get, it's impossible to keep up. Scene: www.dc-s.com | MUD: tyme.envy.com 6969 | irc: irc.quakenet.eu.org

