gary, ---- Original message ---- >Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2005 12:13:32 -0700 >From: Gary Clemans-Gibbon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: Boot hanging following power out - it's worse >Cc: OpenBSD misc-list <misc@openbsd.org> > >I rebooted the box and now it is hanging with > >Automatic boot in progress: starting file system checks. >/dev/rwd0a: file system is clean; not checking > >and that's the last thing it says. > >I'm pretty desperate here, there is data on these disks that I cannot >lose since my last backup. > >many many thanks in advance, >Gary >
i would follow the advice of the failure: run fsck manually. to do this boot into single user mode by issuing "boot -s" at the boot prompt. then "fsck -p /dev/wd0a" or whatever partition of whatever drive you want. i usually try to get all the partitions to check out before i manually mount them with "mount /dev/wd0a /", etc. then see if your data is accessible and try to boot into multiuser mode. hth, jake > >Gary Clemans-Gibbon wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I have an i386 3.7 release generic box running as a file server in my >> home with three hdds, one for os, two for data. We just had a power >> surge/outage that lasted a split second but now the box hangs on boot >> with the following.. >> >> Can't open /dev/rwd1a: Device not configured >> CAN'T CHECK FILE SYSTEM. >> /dev/rwd1a: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck_ffs MANUALLY. >> >> The boot stops at that point. /dev/rwd1a is one of the data disks. The >> other checks fine. Please can someone tell me how to get the box to boot >> and how to fix this please. >> >> Thanks in advance >> Gary
