HELP! NS turbo won't boot (or boots very very slowly)
Mark Powell
ethernet network in our lab. Two of the machines, including the netinfo
server (my machine 48 MB RAM) and another (32 MB RAM) are fine and boot up
ok. Our HD's are mounted to each other and we all share space on an
external HD attached to my machine. Usually they are on all the time and
are only booted up occasionally if swap space is too large. The troubled
machine (32MB RAM) has had trouble recently with very very slow booting.
Were talking: you power it up when leaving the lab at 6 or 7 pm and it
doesnt boot up until 2-3 in the morning (based on times when files are
automatically ftp'd to it from another machine). Disk space on the 400MB
internal HD is down to around 20 MB now, but when this problem started a
week or so ago the space had been allowed to get down to 1 MB. Today we
started it up to reboot under the ROM monitor in verbose mode but it gets
stuck after
IP protocal enabled for interface en0, type "10 MB Ethernet"
every now and then you can hear the HD for a second or so but it seems
frozen. There were no system test error codes using the "ec" rom monitor
command. It will probably eventually boot up but I don't think anyone
will be looking at the monitor to check for error messages when it does.
Anyone out there have any ideas on how we might proceed to diagnose the
problem? I am not a Unix expert (probably made that obvious) but have
access to one if I can get him away from the fires he is forever putting
out elsewhere. Thanks!
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Dr. Mark D. Powell
Research Meteorologist, CCM (Swimmer, Windsurfer, user of NEXTSTEP)
NOAA Hurricane Research Division (appropriate disclaimers apply)
Miami, Fl 33149 Voice (305) 361-4403 Fax (305) 361-4402