>From iq2j9367@lmu.ac.uk Fri Nov 22 11:38:59 1996
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 12:16:53 +0000 (GMT)
From: Robert Malcolm Speed <iq2j9367@lmu.ac.uk>
To: Jasper Wallace <jasper@ivision.co.uk>
Subject: Re: YAHM (Yet Another Help Message)

On Wed, 20 Nov 1996, Jasper Wallace wrote:
 
> ok. rather than using the install program, from the prompt type:
> 
>  mount /mnt <your partition>
> 
> where <your partition> is /dev/wd1[a|e] or whatever
> 
> if that works type:
> 
>  df -k
> 
> and
> 
>  mount
> 
> could you send me the results...
> 
> On mine mount and df -k produce:
> 
> /dev/wd1a on / type ffs (local)
> /dev/wd1e on /usr type ffs (local)
> 
> Filesystem  1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity  Mounted on
> /dev/wd1a       33983    20603    11680    64%    /
> /dev/wd1e      345295   313392    14638    96%    /usr
> 
> another thing to try would be:
> 
>  disklabel <your disc> (e.g /dev/wd1c ) <- n.b. chould end in 'c'
> 
> if any of these fail or produce silly looking out put then we might be
> getting closer to the problem.
> 


Well I cerainly had fun, sorry, I did an event last night (I navigate for
a rally team) and I'm still on a high...

Right then.....

mount /dev/wd0       produces

fstab: /etc/fstab:no such file or directory
fstab: /etc/fstab:no such file or directory         (yes twice)
mount: /dev/wd0:unknown special file or file system

df -k      produces

filesystem     1k-blocks    used    avail   capacity     mounted on
root-device       1379      1377     2          100%         /
kernfs               1         1     0          100%         /kern


mount     produces

root-device on /      type ufs (local,read-only)
kernfs      on /kern  type kernfs(local)



disklabel /dev/wd0c    produces


non-adfs offset = 000f6570
RiscBSD partition @ 000f6570
# /dev/wd0c
type: ST506
disk: mywd
Label:
flags:
bytes/sector: 512
sectors/track: 63
tracks/cylinder: 16
sectors/cylinder: 1008
cylinders: 1656
total sectors: 1669248
rpm: 3600
interleave: 1
trackskew: 0
cylinderskew: 0
headswitch: 0           # milliseconds
track-to-track seek: 0  # milliseconds
drive data: 0

5 partitions:
#       size    offset   fstype   [fsize   bsize   cpg
  a:   50400   1009008   4.2BSD     1024    8192    16  # (cyl. 1001-1050)
  b:   50400   1059408   SWAP                           # (cyl. 1051-1100)
  c: 1669248         0   unused        0       0        # (cyl. 0-1655)
  d:  660240         0   unused        0       0        # (cyl. 0-654)
  e:  559440   1109808   4.2BSD     1024    8192    16  # (cyl. 1101-1655)



That's basically it, oh, I've found out, it's the 1.1 relase not 1.2, and
I'm using 3598 kernal, I've got 4444 and 4554, but they both give a
greyish sort of screen with rolling bricks (thats what they look like 
to me anyway) after about 1/2 page of text, I'm in Uni now and I
can't remember what the last message said before the screen goes doolally,
I think it was possibly syncing disks - I know nothing comes up about
hydra() or podules or the different terminals using the vt220VIDC and all
that jazz.....

I've downloaded a few more kernals so i'll try them and see what happens.



Thanks for the help, it's much appreciated



Rob S.