Re: Can someone help me with this bootup problem?

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From: Paul Lynch
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 17:19

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In article <1992Dec18.174527.27414@athena.mit.edu> krtamura@athena.mit.edu  
(Kohichi R Tamura) writes:
> I just received my 3.0 upgrade.  It was booting fine off the external  
hard
> drive, but I took it back in because the place that did it for me didn't 
> include NeXTCD and everything in it.  After he put that on, I took it  
home 
> and tried to boot up and now it seems to hang at the point "Checking  
System 
> Files".  It just sits there and I can't see any exchange (flashing  
light) 
> with the external drive. I thought maybe it was just going to take a  
while 
> but it stayed that way for over 10 minutes.
> 

It is almost certainly doing an fsck; the way to verify this is to force a  
verbose boot (interrupt duing 'Testing System' with RightCommand-~ and  
type bsd), and watch the messages.

If so, 10 minutes might well not be long enough.

Paul
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