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System crashed and my disk went with it
Sometime during the night one of our DEC 3000/400 workstations
went south. I strongly suspect a faulty tape drive causing the
problem as we have seen this before. Anyway, the boot disk is
hosed to the point where I get the following error:
AUDIT_BOOT_STARTS ...
AUDIT_CHECKSUM_GOOD
AUDIT_LOAD_BEGINS
AUDIT_LOAD_DONE
can't open osf_boot
I am not exactly sure what this means but here is what I tried to
do to fix the problem. First, I booted from the CD-ROM and
went into the system management shell. I then ran fsck on the
disk and it fixed A LOT of errors and all of the partitions on
the disk EXCEPT the a partition cleaned up successfully. When
fsck'ing /dev/rrz14a I get the following:
Phase 1 - Check Blocks and Sizes
Phase 2 - Check Pathnames
ROOT INODE UNALLOCATED
ALLOCATE? [yn] y
cannot find inode 2
So, given these two errors I thought that maybe the bootblocks
were gone/hosed. So, I tried writing a new disklabel:
disklabel -w -r /dev/rrz14a rzxx. (I inserted rzxx into the
disktab file.) Then, I tried rebooting. But, I still get:
can't open osf_boot
Does anyone have some ideas that will get this system disk back
up short of me having to reinstall the whole operating system?
Thanks in advance for any help you man have to offer.
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