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From: divine@gargoyle.uchicago.edu (Dwight Divine)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: kernel corruption on 330Mb hd???
Summary: What if your optical drive won't boot???
Keywords: kernel, corruption, optical
Message-ID: <525@gargoyle.uchicago.edu>
Date: 15 Nov 89 18:36:04 GMT
References: <17504@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> <5604@umd5.umd.edu> <12811@polya.Stanford.EDU>
Reply-To: div3@tank.uchicago.edu.UUCP (Dwight Divine)
Organization: UCCO Central Users Site (Usite)
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	Please be patient with me, as this is my first post to a net.  I seem 
to have suffered this kernel corruption problem, with a nasty twist.  Not only
does the machine fail to boot from the hard drive (locking up shortly after
checking the RAM), but it will not boot from the 1.0 System floptical.  When I
use the Mach boot-from-floptical command, the disk begins to load in, but 
after setting up several of the daemons, I receive the message that the window
servers cannot be accessed/opened.  The boot-up locks at this point, but I
*am* able to power down using the power switch.  Still, I cannot successfully
boot up, and thus cannot fix the kernel corruption problem as per the suggested
fix posted in the various articles about this problem.
	This floptical problem could be due to a variety of things which have 
no relation to the original kernel problem, and user error has not as yet been
ruled out.  However, has anyone had this happen to them?  If so, I would 
greatly appreciate any input anyone has to offer.  
	Thanks much for the time.

						With Thanks,
						Dwight Divine
						(div3@tank)
						NeXT System Administrator
						Usite, U of Chicago