> Hi, newbie A/UX user alert.

Whee, welcome to MaX :-)

> I installed A/UX and it ran up fine and was working. I then installed 
> system 6.0.8 on the non A/UX Mac partition (256MB) and booted into 
> it. I could not set the startup disk back to my A/UX boot partition 
> so I had to do it using System Picker. It went back to OS 7.1 and 
> tried to boot A/UX but ground to a halt reporting disk errors all 
> over what I presume to be the USR&ROOT partition (c0d0s0) and wanted 
> me to run fsck manually. I did so (fsck /dev/c0d0s0) and it reported 
> not being able to read several areas and the hard disk made that 
> dreaded noise like that area was retrying, i.e. corrupt. Can I save 
> it or should I re-install? What might have killed it to start with? I 
> never shut it down illegally or anything silly like that I did it 
> properly as I know what NIX is like about disk errors

It sounds like you had a hardware failure, but can you be more specific with
the errors?

In the Launcher mini-shell, can you see any portion of the filesystem at all?
What does an 'ls' give you?

Usually an ungraceful shutdown will not cause something like this; fsck
will just gripe at you, fix the errors, and life goes on. This sounds much
more serious.

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