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Started by Alex Blakemore
Mon, 10 Aug 1992 06:04
Cant mount / booting single user
Author: Alex Blakemore
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1992 06:04
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1992 06:04
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After setting up a new external drive, my NeXT no longer boots without assistance. I've scoured the sysadmin manual, NextAnswers, the man pages but cant find any reference to these symptoms. The problem shows up immediately in the third phase of booting, at the top of rc.boot, when it attempts to remount the root file system (which should have been mounted during the Startup phase). ############ line from /etc/rc.boot ############ mount -o remount / >/dev/console This mount fails and later problems arise (e.g. the mount -at 4.3 in /etc/rc has no effect) ############ error message ########### mount: / not found After rc.boot completes, the root file system is mounted read-only and has to be remounted by hand (naming both the device and mount point). Only after that and mounting the external disk can multi-user startup succeed. Even then other steps may be required (like making /etc/mtab empty and rebooting) Does anyone have an idea what might be wrong? I've tried just about everything I can imagine, and would be very greatful for any help or pointers. Does the Startup phase read /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab? I've appended any info that I thought relevant. ############ /etc/fstab ############ /dev/sd0a / 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1 /dev/sd1a /External_Disk 4.3 rw,noquota 0 2 P.S. At one point the second fstab entry also pointed to / due to a cut&paste error, long since fixed. ############ hardware ########### NeXTstation Turbo internal 240M HD (SCSI id 1) external 500M HD (SCSI id 2) -- new currently standalone ############ software ########### NeXTSTEP 2.2 The internal disk is the boot device. Several files that should not affect booting have been moved to the external drive (eg. /LocalApps, /LocalLibrary) and symbolic links left on the internal drive / point to the new locations. ############ tail of /usr/adm/messages ############ Aug 10 00:10:36 saturn mach: init arg: -sx Aug 10 00:10:36 saturn mach: Remote debugging enabled Aug 10 00:10:36 saturn mach: NeXT ROM Monitor 3.0 v70 Aug 10 00:10:36 saturn mach: NeXT Mach 2.2: Mon Feb 3 09:00:33 PST 1992; /ph1_sources/projects/mk-108.28/RELEASE Aug 10 00:10:36 saturn mach: FPU version 0x41 Aug 10 00:10:36 saturn mach: physical memory = 24.00 megabytes. Aug 10 00:10:36 saturn mach: available memory = 22.85 megabytes. Aug 10 00:10:36 saturn mach: using 16 buffers containing 0.12 megabytes of memory Aug 10 00:10:36 saturn mach: fc0 at 0x2014100 Aug 10 00:10:36 saturn mach: Sony MPX-111N as fd0 at fc0 slave 0 Aug 10 00:10:36 saturn mach: SCSI 53C90A Controller, Target 7, as sc0 at 0x2014000 Aug 10 00:10:36 saturn mach: SEAGATE ST1280 as sd0 at sc0 target 1 lun 0 Aug 10 00:10:36 saturn mach: Disk Label: NeXT_2.2 Aug 10 00:10:36 saturn mach: Disk Capacity 239MB, Device Block 1024 bytes Aug 10 00:10:36 saturn mach: FUJITSU M2624F-512 as sd1 at sc0 target 2 lun 0 Aug 10 00:10:36 saturn mach: Disk Label: External_Disk_2 Aug 10 00:10:36 saturn mach: Disk Capacity 496MB, Device Block 512 bytes Aug 10 00:10:36 saturn mach: Generic SCSI Device as sg0 at sc0 target 7 lun 7 Aug 10 00:10:36 saturn mach: en0 at 0x2006000 Aug 10 00:10:36 saturn mach: en0: Ethernet address 00:00:0f:01:03:ba Aug 10 00:10:36 saturn mach: IP protocol enabled for interface en0, type "10MB Ethernet" Aug 10 00:10:36 saturn mach: dsp0 at 0x2008000 Aug 10 00:10:36 saturn mach: np0 at 0x200f000 Aug 10 00:10:36 saturn mach: sound0 at 0x200e000 Aug 10 00:10:36 saturn mach: root on sd0 Aug 10 00:10:36 saturn mach: master cpu at slot 0. Aug 10 00:10:36 saturn mach: The network is disabled or your computer isn't connected to it. Aug 10 00:10:45 saturn automount: Can't get my address Aug 10 00:10:53 saturn WindowServer: Problem starting the NeXTdimension.psdrvr driver. Continuing. ############ file system ########### % ls -algF / total 1464 drwxrwxrwt 14 root wheel 1024 Aug 10 00:08 ./ drwxrwxrwt 14 root wheel 1024 Aug 10 00:08 ../ drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 1024 Aug 9 22:40 .NeXT/ -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 91 Aug 7 14:47 .hidden -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 29 Apr 7 22:25 .rhosts drwxr-xr-x 13 root wheel 1024 Aug 9 16:18 External_Disk/ lrwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 25 Aug 7 17:01 LocalAdmin -> /External_Disk/LocalAdmin/@ lrwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 24 Aug 7 13:55 LocalApps -> /External_Disk/LocalApps/@ lrwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 29 Aug 7 17:00 LocalDeveloper -> /External_Disk/LocalDeveloper/@ lrwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 27 Aug 7 16:56 LocalLibrary -> /External_Disk/LocalLibrary/@ drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 1024 Feb 6 1992 Net/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 1024 May 14 09:54 NextAdmin/ drwxr-xr-x 6 root wheel 1024 Jun 22 22:32 NextApps/ drwxr-xr-x 5 root wheel 1024 Jul 5 21:52 NextDeveloper/ drwxr-xr-x 10 root wheel 1024 Aug 8 02:43 NextLibrary/ lrwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 20 Aug 7 14:33 Users -> /External_Disk/Users/@ drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 2048 Apr 9 1991 bin/ lrwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 11 Feb 6 1992 dev -> private/dev/@ lrwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 11 Feb 6 1992 etc -> private/etc/@ drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 1024 Apr 9 1991 lib/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 8192 Feb 6 1992 lost+found/ lrwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 9 Feb 6 1992 mach -> $BOOTFILE@ -r--r--r-- 2 root wheel 722953 Feb 3 1992 odmach drwxrwxr-x 11 root staff 1024 Apr 9 1991 private/ -r--r--r-- 2 root wheel 722953 Feb 3 1992 sdmach lrwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 11 Feb 6 1992 tmp -> private/tmp/@ drwxr-xr-x 15 root wheel 1024 Aug 7 14:41 usr/ % ls -algF /External_Disk/ total 20 drwxr-xr-x 13 root wheel 1024 Aug 9 16:18 ./ drwxrwxrwt 14 root wheel 1024 Aug 10 00:08 ../ drwxrwxrwt 3 root wheel 1024 Aug 9 16:18 .NextTrash/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 1024 Aug 7 13:44 LocalAdmin/ drwxr-xr-x 19 root wheel 1024 Aug 9 15:24 LocalApps/ drwxrwxr-x 5 root staff 1024 Aug 9 00:02 LocalDeveloper/ drwxr-xr-x 12 root wheel 1024 Aug 8 01:23 LocalLibrary/ drwxr-xr-x 5 root wheel 1024 Aug 8 02:38 NextLibrary/ drwxr-xr-x 7 root wheel 1024 May 17 23:06 Users/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 8192 Aug 5 17:08 lost+found/ drwxr-xr-x 6 root wheel 1024 Jun 11 18:43 new_drive.info/ drwxrwxrwx 2 root wheel 1024 Aug 9 13:42 tmp/ drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 1024 Aug 7 14:39 usr/ % ls -algF /External_Disk/NextLibrary/ total 6 drwxr-xr-x 5 root wheel 1024 Aug 8 02:38 ./ drwxr-xr-x 13 root wheel 1024 Aug 9 16:18 ../ -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 311 Aug 8 02:34 .dir.wmd drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 1024 Aug 8 11:46 Documentation/ drwxr-xr-x 5 root wheel 1024 Apr 10 1991 References/ drwxr-xr-x 4 root wheel 1024 Mar 12 16:47 TeX/ % ls -alg /External_Disk/usr total 3 drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 1024 Aug 7 14:39 ./ drwxr-xr-x 13 root wheel 1024 Aug 9 16:18 ../ drwxr-xr-x 9 root wheel 1024 Aug 9 15:04 local/ % ls -alg /External_Disk/usr/local/ total 9 drwxr-xr-x 9 root wheel 1024 Aug 9 15:04 ./ drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 1024 Aug 7 14:39 ../ dr-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 1024 Apr 15 13:05 adatest/ dr-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 1024 Aug 9 15:16 bin/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 1024 Aug 10 00:04 etc/ drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 1024 May 11 13:55 games/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 1024 Aug 9 15:08 info/ dr-xr-xr-x 5 root wheel 1024 Jul 29 01:46 lib/ dr-xr-xr-x 5 root wheel 1024 May 10 23:07 man/ -- --------------------------------------------------- Alex Blakemore alex@cs.umd.edu NeXT mail accepted
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