SUMMARY: Alphaserver 1000A 5/300 - Constantly rebooting - crashes when sta rting to mount the filesystems

From: Nick Goodman (ngoodman@AmericanExcelsior.com)
Date: Mon Jun 07 2004 - 17:22:42 EDT

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Well after Denise McCracken suggestion on booting from cdrom and commenting
out everything in the fstab except root, usr and swap and then seeing if the
system booted up, came up fine. I can go in and manually remount all my
advfs drives and the system works fine, but as soon as I try to mount one
certain one the system crashes, traced it down to a raid 1+0 set that has a
bad drive.

Anyways here is how I did it.

Booted from 4.0f install cd, exited to Unix Shell

cd /dev
./MAKEDEV /re0
cd /etc/fdmns
mkdir tmproot
cd tmproot
ln -s /dev/re0a
mount tmproot#root /mnt
cd /mnt
Then edit the fstab commenting out all entries except root, usr and swap

The rebooted the system and it came up just fine.

Nick Goodman
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