corruption after crash

Iain Stevenson yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Thu Jul 25 02:01:01 2002


Try booting it in single user mode with the 2.2.19 kernel by including the 
'single' argument in BootX.  Assuming that boots to a console prompt you 
could check the affected drive with fsck.

  Iain



--On Wednesday, July 24, 2002 5:23 pm -0700 Guy McArthur 
<guym@guymcarthur.com> wrote:

>
> After a recent power outage, my YDL 2.1 PowerMac 9500 is behaving oddly.
> The kernel comes up in a prompt like
> mon>
> which seems to be some kind of kernel-level debugging shell.
>
> Changing the boot options, I can get it to come up using the 2.2.19
> kernel, but then the video is in bizarre psychedelic colors like it is
> being dithered down, and of course the sound modules don't load.
>
> Seems like maybe a disk corruption in the /boot partition?
>
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