daveb@rtech.UUCP (Dave Brower) (11/16/85)
> In article <2200@umcp-cs.UUCP> chris@umcp-cs.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes: > >One of the most, er, `interesting' things that can happen to a root > >file system is to lose /dev (have it turn into an ordinary file or > >soemthing)... > > ...out /dev & /bin, but still had /etc and /usr. Using /etc/mknod, I was.. A distressing thing can happen on the Unix PC following a graceless shutdown: Lose the shared library in /lib/shlib. When you reboot, *nothing* works. There's no usefull error message, and all the tiny little executables Convergent, er, AT&T delivers go, "Accck-pfffft." It's fun shuffling things around off of the boot floppy to the HD in order to get to the point where it is possible to recover a copy. -dB -- {amdahl|dual|sun|zehntel}\ | {ucbvax|decvax}!mtxinu---->!rtech!daveb | "Something can always go wrong" ihnp4!{phoenix|amdahl}___/ |