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From: jpr@jpradley.jpr.com (Jean-Pierre Radley)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
Subject: Re: Xenix refuses to boot
Keywords: xenix,386,refuse boot
Message-ID: <1991Feb12.023310.15047@jpradley.jpr.com>
Date: 12 Feb 91 02:33:10 GMT
References: <5900@uafhp.uark.edu>
Organization: NYC Public Unix
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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