binde@hardees.rutgers.edu (Beth Binde) (03/08/90)
A 3b2/310 on campus was badly scrambled by a power hit. In an attempt to restore it, a partial restore of the Essential Utilities (as recommended in the manual) was done. This removed the cartridge tape and ni devices from the edt. Not to worry, the cartridge tape utilities were re-installed and TCP/IP was reinstalled. Unfortunately, TCP/IP was not de-installed first. The system will not go into multi-user mode, and attempts to invoke magic mode have failed. (If we could only get into single-user mode, we could fix all this.) Another attempt was made at a partial restore. The system advises us that it cannot do so because there are only 272 blocks on the disk, and 800 are needed. (This was attempted after booting from the Essential Utilities Disk 1.) An attempt was made to boot from /etc/system. The error message was External Symbol linkTable is undefined; set to zero External symbol sxtopen is undefined; set to zero ERROR: linkTable When booting from /unix, the system does not make it in to multi-user mode-- it repeats the message socket:no such device or address and hangs. The system is quite messed up at the moment. The manual has been consulted but offers no illumination. We'd like to avoid a full restore if at all possible. Any pointers? Beth -- binde@hardees.rutgers.edu Rutgers University 201-932-5019