> 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. -- ----------------------------- personal page: http://www.armory.com/~spectre/ -- Cameron Kaiser, Point Loma Nazarene University * [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- The only thing to fear is fearlessness -- R. E. M. ------------------------- -- MaX-list is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... / Buy books, CDs, videos, and more from Amazon.com \ / <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect-home/lowendmac> \ Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> MaX-list info: <http://lowendmac.com/linux/max.shtml> Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/max-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Macintosh? Get free email and more at Applelinks! <http://www.applelinks.com>
