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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers SCO OpenServer 5 Will Not Boot Post 303026432 by spock9458 on Tuesday 27th of November 2018 03:46:11 PM
Old 11-27-2018
OK, this saga continues... I figured I would just start over with a brand-new hard drive and SCO OpenServer 5.0.6 installation from my CD, thinking I would then restore my tape backup and be on my way. The install went without a problem, and next I installed the 5.0.6a supplement CD for what I think is y2k fixes. That went fine, but then when I did a reboot after it rebuilt the kernel - BAM the same problem happened at boot up. It just stops shortly after loading the boot config, and then the machine restarts. Obviously now it is some other hardware problem, but I don't know what to try. I ran a boot CD with some diagnostic tools, and the memory test passed just fine. I think I might have problems finding replacement parts to start swapping out - this server hardware is at least 14 or 15 years old (which I know is probably my main problem).


I would love to find a way to get the data from my backup tape to the virtual machine I have working in VMWare, so I will pursue that route and will probably have some more questions. gull04 mentioned something about restoring to "near line storage" and then remote mounting, but I have no idea how to go about that process.
 

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MKFS.BFS(8)						Linux System Administrator's Manual					       MKFS.BFS(8)

NAME
mkfs.bfs - make an SCO bfs filesystem SYNOPSIS
mkfs.bfs [-N nr-of-inodes] [-V volume-name] [-F fsname] device [size-in-blocks] DESCRIPTION
mkfs.bfs creates an SCO bfs file-system on a block device (usually a disk partition or a file accessed via the loop device). The size-in-blocks parameter is the desired size of the file system, in blocks. If nothing is specified, the entire partition will be used. OPTIONS
-N Specify the desired number of inodes (at most 512). If nothing is specified some default number in the range 48-512 is picked depending on the size of the partition. -V volume-label Specify the volume label. I have no idea if/where this is used. -F fsname Specify the fsname. I have no idea if/where this is used. -v Be verbose. EXIT CODES
The exit code returned by mkfs.bfs is 0 when all went well, and 1 when something went wrong. SEE ALSO
mkfs(8). AVAILABILITY
The mkfs.bfs command is part of the util-linux package and is available from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/. Util-linux 2.9x 12 Sept 1999 MKFS.BFS(8)
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