You should boot on your bsd.old multi user to check /home is realy corrupted or if your /bsd is corrupted. you can try this too : mount all partitions but /home in single user and launch fsck manualy on /home.
if fsck hangs again then you should backup /home (with dd for example) format it mount it, umount it do fsck again mount it & then restore saved datas and reboot. Then it my be ok at last. DO NOT TRY TO FIX IT WITH BIOS IF COMPUTER WAS WORKING WELL BEFORE WITH SAME BIOS.... > ---------------------------------------- > From: Amit Kulkarni <[email protected]> > Sent: Tue Mar 01 19:51:32 CET 2011 > To: misc <[email protected]> > Subject: OpenBSD -current fails to boot > > > Hi all, > > This is really strange. For 1-2 days now, I can't get the machine to > boot. It is hung up since day before yesterday and can't get past > fsck, saying system was not shutdown correctly, automatic checks in > progress. > > The only sequence of events I can recall is that I applied the USB > patch delay and then I compiled and rebooted into kernel which has the > USB delay and it worked fine for an hour or so. While there I fiddled > with some command I found which lists the smart status of the hard > disks (I don't remember what command it was though). Then I shut > down, and next day I did a cvs update. And I immediately did a plain > fsck. It got hung up in fsck for half an hour on /home (which is > really small of about 20G) and I tried to do a Ctrl+C and I power > cycled it down. Since then it hangs up in fsck. I mounted single user, > mounted partitions one by one and marked all partitions except /home > partition as clean. It hangs up in /home, why I don't know. fsck even > marked my RAID 1 softraid as clean. I am perplexed why doesn't it go > past the fsck on a normal boot, and I have to power cycle it down. > > The only thing I did different was that hard disk command, and > googling brought me to this > http://www.techmetica.com/howto/sata-ahci-mode-bios-setting.-what-does-it-do/ > > Do I really have to do a upgrade or change anything in BIOS to make it > boot? Please advice. > > Thanks, > amit
