Xenix refuses to boot

[Jean-Pierre Radley]

In article <5900 at uafhp.uark.edu> bbs00361 at uafcseg.uucp (Jose Gomez) writes:
>After my Xenix/386 2.3.2 suffered a general panic, the system refuses to boot.
>It just stops at the Z prompt.  Right after it gives me the list of interrupt
>vectors in use.

I have no ideas to give you about what is happeneing.

>I would like to copy some data off of the hard disk before reformatting.
>I've tried a floppy boot sequence using the N1 disk and interrupting the installation sequence.  I've entered 'fsck /dev/root' to no avail.

If you did successfully boot from the N1 disk, great, but at that point
/dev/root is the floppy, not the hard disk. So try mounting the hard drive, and
if it fails, do an fsck on the hard drive, not on the floppy.

 Jean-Pierre Radley   NYC Public Unix   jpr at jpradley.jpr.com   CIS: 72160,1341