Xenix refuses to boot
Jean-Pierre Radley
jpr at jpradley.jpr.com
Tue Feb 12 13:33:10 AEST 1991
In article <5900 at uafhp.uark.edu> bbs00361 at uafcseg.uucp (Jose Gomez) writes:
>After my Xenix/386 2.3.2 suffered a general panic, the system refuses to boot.
>It just stops at the Z prompt. Right after it gives me the list of interrupt
>vectors in use.
I have no ideas to give you about what is happeneing.
>I would like to copy some data off of the hard disk before reformatting.
>I've tried a floppy boot sequence using the N1 disk and interrupting the installation sequence. I've entered 'fsck /dev/root' to no avail.
If you did successfully boot from the N1 disk, great, but at that point
/dev/root is the floppy, not the hard disk. So try mounting the hard drive, and
if it fails, do an fsck on the hard drive, not on the floppy.
Jean-Pierre Radley NYC Public Unix jpr at jpradley.jpr.com CIS: 72160,1341
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