bbs00361@uafcseg.uucp (Jose Gomez) (01/30/91)
After my Xenix/386 2.3.2 suffered a general panic, the system refuses to boot. It just stops at the Z prompt. Right after it gives me the list of interrupt vectors in use. I would like to copy some data off of the hard disk before reformatting. I've tried a floppy boot sequence using the N1 disk and interrupting the installation sequence. I've entered 'fsck /dev/root' to no avail. How do I copy data off of a non-booting hard disk? Please mail replies to gomez@enuxha.eas.asu.edu since this is a courtesy account.
jpr@jpradley.jpr.com (Jean-Pierre Radley) (02/12/91)
In article <5900@uafhp.uark.edu> bbs00361@uafcseg.uucp (Jose Gomez) writes: >After my Xenix/386 2.3.2 suffered a general panic, the system refuses to boot. >It just stops at the Z prompt. Right after it gives me the list of interrupt >vectors in use. I have no ideas to give you about what is happeneing. >I would like to copy some data off of the hard disk before reformatting. >I've tried a floppy boot sequence using the N1 disk and interrupting the installation sequence. I've entered 'fsck /dev/root' to no avail. If you did successfully boot from the N1 disk, great, but at that point /dev/root is the floppy, not the hard disk. So try mounting the hard drive, and if it fails, do an fsck on the hard drive, not on the floppy. Jean-Pierre Radley NYC Public Unix jpr@jpradley.jpr.com CIS: 72160,1341