A/UX trouble
Alexis Rosen
alexis at panix.uucp
Mon Nov 26 20:02:19 AEST 1990
In article <2243 at s6.Morgan.COM> jordan at Morgan.COM (Jordan Hayes) writes:
>Alexis Rosen <alexis at panix.uucp> writes:
> > During the boot process when A/UX checks its file system and
> > install the processes it gives us only the notice "panic:
> > ialloc: dup alloc" after one-third of the progress bar.
> It's telling you that it has discovered a single inode
> allocated to two different files. Try running fsck on the
> guilty party.
>
>Good advice.
>
> I'd suggest reformatting and repartitioning the disk from
> scratch, if nobody else has any better ideas.
>
>Bad advice, unless you like wasting time. After you launch the boot
>process from MacOS, click the Cancel button ... this will bring you up
>single user. Run fsck from there, and then reboot.
Huh? Is this not what I first said? "Try running fsck..."
The second paragraph was fallback- that is, if fsck didn't do the trick.
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Alexis Rosen
Owner/Sysadmin, PANIX Public Access Unix, NY
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