I had to give up on that disk. I bought a new 10GB IDE to replace it (it's going to be vastly under-filled). I still have the disk, so if anyone wants to follow this up, it is still intact. On 2 Feb 2001, at 5:21, Dan Langille wrote: > I recently upgraded a box from 4.1-stable to 4.2-stable. An NFS mount was > used for the install world and install kernel. During the kernel install > the box panic'd (sorry, didn't see the message). Upon boot, the box give > these messages: > > Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a > /: bad dir ino 2 at offset 0: mangled entry > panic: ufs_dirbad: bad dir > > syncing disks.... 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1..etc > giving up on 1 buffers > > > I did an fsck on the disk by moving it to another box. The above messages > appeared both before and after the fsck. > > Clues please! -- Dan Langille pgpkey - finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://unixathome.org/finger.php To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message