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From: jbayer@ispi.UUCP (Jonathan Bayer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: Help with hard disk recovery under xenix
Keywords: Xenix, harddisk
Message-ID: <387@ispi.UUCP>
Date: 30 Dec 88 14:06:10 GMT
References: <23020@apple.Apple.COM>
Reply-To: jbayer@ispi.UUCP (Jonathan Bayer)
Organization: Intelligent Software Products, Inc.
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In article <23020@apple.Apple.COM> bruce@Apple.COM (Bruce Stewart) writes:
=I'd appreciate whatever help the net could provide on this one --
=
=I'm trying to recover a xenix system that will no longer boot (panic from 
=iinit, apparently unable to read the superblock on the root filesystem).  As 
=near as I can determine, I cannot create a bootable floppy root filesystem
=(unlike 386 xenix!) to get the machine to boot.  The manual advises me to 
=re-install everything (the last resort, in my opinion, since I'd like to 
=recover as much as possible before I do this).  The only other alternative I
=can think of is to find another 286 xenix system, remove my disk, install it in
=the other system, and attempt to mount it from the other root filesystem.
=
=Any other ideas?  Thanks in advance --

You can make a bootable floppy root disk for a 286 system.  Your best bet is
to find another 286 with an empty drive, install xenix, make a bootable
floppy root disk, and go back to your system.  You can also install your
original disk in the second system, but that is a pain in the butt.

JB

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