We have a DEC 3000/600 that hard-crashed to the console prompt following
I/O errors and a "can't find /sbin/hostname" for the df command. Now the
boot process fails after the AUDIT_BOOT_* series with "cannot find
osf_boot". SHO DEV at console shows all devices ok. The hardware tests on
powerup are ok.
This machine lost another (external) drive due to a power surge a few weeks
back.
I boot the machine off the DU 3.2c distribution CD and from single user in
service mode, disklabel CAN read the label on the root disk, as well as the
other 2 disks. Is the disk dead or not? Where do I go from here to, say,
determine viability of the drive or health of file root file system?
Thing is, all file systems were advfs, including / and /usr. fsck doesn't
work on advfs file systems. What is the procedure for checking advfs
partitions?
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Neil R. Smith, Research Assoc./Comp.Sys.Mngr. neils_at_csrp.tamu.edu
Climate System Research Program 409/862-4342
Dept. of Meteorology, Texas A&M Univ., USA 409/862-4132 FAX
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Received on Tue Jan 30 1996 - 19:50:18 NZDT