I have backup power for my system, so normally I have no problem with power failures. However, last month somehow the power was interrupted and I was repeatedly unable to completely boot the 3.6 version of /bsd. I finally tried booting /bsd.mp which came up ok. After that, the next time I rebooted, /bsd booted normally. I figure that something on the boot disk was left in a bad state by the power failure and running /bsd.mp fixed it. This was the only time in 3 years that /bsd failed to boot for me, all other power failures included.
Dave Feustel On Saturday 20 August 2005 14:13, Gary Clemans-Gibbon wrote: > 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 > > > 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 > > -- Tired of having to defend against Malware? (You know: trojans, viruses, SPYWARE, worms and popups) Then Switch to OpenBSD with a KDE desktop!!!
