had a problem with the / partition getting full (105%) on a fileserver
here and then rebooted it. after rebooting the "ERR M" line came up
immediately after the "drive 0 partition 3" message that is normally
followed by the boot prompt. this is an amd64 4.1-release machine and i
can't account for this behavior aside from the overfull state of the /
partition during shutdown.
so i booted off a USB drive (i386), mounted / from the other disk and
cleared off the stuff that had eaten all the space. rebooted and got the
ERR M again, so apparently something became hosed from the first time it
was shutdown with an overfull /.
got an amd64 install onto the USB drive so i could attempt booting /bsd
from the "hosed" drive. at the boot prompt did a "boot hd1a:/bsd" and
the machine is running, albeit using a USB drive to boot the kernel from
hd1.
have gotten the ERR M message before and recognize it indicates a bad
magic number but am clueless as to how to fix it. clues appreciated
here. find a link to the dmesg below.
cheers,
jake
dmesg - http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=118141026830100&w=2
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