Subject: Re: Indy IP22 problem: init dies
To: Wayne Knowles <wdk@netbsd.org>
From: Emmanuel Dreyfus <manu@netbsd.org>
List: port-sgimips
Date: 01/04/2002 19:49:49
> Sounds like your root filesystem to totally hosed.   I Had a similar
> problem when developing the WD33C93 SCSI driver, but got out of jail by
> falling back to a net-boot root filesystem.

I netbooted the machine, and fsck'ed the root fs. fsck reported no
damage at all. I replaced init by the init on my netboot root, and I can
boot again.

I wonder how I've been able to trash init. It's quite uncommon to open
this file for writing...

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Emmanuel Dreyfus.
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