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[cobalt-users] Re: Qube checking disk
- Subject: [cobalt-users] Re: Qube checking disk
- From: Bruce Timberlake <bruce@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue May 4 19:00:01 2004
- Organization: BRTnet.org
- List-id: Mailing list for users to share thoughts on Sun Cobalt products. <cobalt-users.list.cobalt.com>
On Tuesday 04 May 2004 06:35 pm, Jerry Ellis wrote:
> I have a Qube 2 that won't boot. A few seconds after you power it up it
> hangs on "Checking disk...." I connected a serial cable to it and captured
> the output. I've posted it below. I think the last line is a clue to my
> problem. I need to get this box running. Can someone point me in the right
> direction here?
How long are you waiting before giving up? Disk checking can take a LONG
time... I've seen some of the older machines take an hour or more to come up
if they were powered off incorrectly. Lack of a journaled file system makes
it a length wait in those cases.