From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: quanstro@quanstro.net (erik quanstrom) Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2011 23:30:16 -0400 Subject: [9fans] New venti install won't boot after 05:00 crash In-Reply-To: References: <86ipvhs0q9.fsf@cmarib.ramside> Message-ID: <92523386d00248deec230112db631be5@brasstown.quanstro.net> Topicbox-Message-UUID: bc9f2914-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > well, I don't have good words for you :-( > > I think the sequence of failures here -- log messages of write errors, > then a corrupted block label -- point to a hardware problem. You might > recover with a reinstall and you might even recover if you know the > root score of venti and boot the install cd, but in any event I think > it's a bad day and you're going to need to think about a new hard > drive or motherboard. there's an easy way to test this. since you can boot from the live cd, just reboot into the live cd and the open another window. turn dma on ; cd /dev/sdC0 ; echo dmaon>ctl then dd the partition you wish, or the whole disk (data) with ; dd -if $partition -of /dev/null -bs 512k & you can check on your progress with ; cat /proc/`{ps|grep dd|awk '{print $2}'}^/fd dd may or may not choke when it hits the end of the partition, so check the error and the blocks in carefully. you may be interested in what the console has to say. i forget if the installer has a window for this, but you can always view the console log with ; cat /dev/kmesg - erik