Re: err msg: Warning: Unable to open initial console

2000-02-14 Thread Shaul Karl
1) Does fsck looks for bad blocks by default? Perhaps you should run badblocks manually? 2) I am not sure if at the end the it will save you time but you might want to consider purging and installing the relevant packages. I have a Red Hat 6.0 machine. Someone didn't shutdown one of my RH

Re: Lisp talk

2000-02-14 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Chen Shapira [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, Obviously most people here don't know much about functional languages (lisp/scheme) besides the fact that they use brackets extensivly. As you might have guessed - most languages have more to them than syntax. Quite a few don't even have a

Demonstration, Thursday Feb. 17

2000-02-14 Thread Ira Abramov
did everyone who wanted to come notify? right now the list of people showing up seems to be kinda small... (10 people?) Boltyansky Boris Alex Shnitman Ereli mulix Shay Meshulam Chen Shapira Ira Abramov Eitan Shefer (not final) Marc Volovic Tal Yaffe anyone from nBase? LinuxNet? (we're

Re: Lisp talk

2000-02-14 Thread Moshe Zadka
I promised myself not to get into language wars but... On 14 Feb 2000, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: IMHO, lisp syntax is one of the most elegant of all programming languages. Prefix notation, absence of precedence rules, uniformity, and a lot of other virtues make life really easy on the

Re: Demonstration, Thursday Feb. 17

2000-02-14 Thread Moshe Zadka
I want to come. On Mon, 14 Feb 2000, Ira Abramov wrote: did everyone who wanted to come notify? right now the list of people showing up seems to be kinda small... (10 people?) Boltyansky Boris Alex Shnitman Ereli mulix Shay Meshulam Chen Shapira Ira Abramov Eitan Shefer (not

language wars

2000-02-14 Thread Chen Shapira
Guys, Do take your relisious war elsewhere. Open [EMAIL PROTECTED] or something. I'll be giving a Lisp lecture somewhere next month to all interested. Details will follow. Thanks, Chen Shapira Its late at night and the stars are deep Thats OK I don't need sleep

Re: err msg: Warning: Unable to open initial console

2000-02-14 Thread Boaz Rymland
I had a similar problem of HD partition table corrupted lately. somehow I managed to partially recreate it, tar the whole FS (the 3 partitions it was composed of) , recreate the partition table, and restore the FS back. Then, I had strange problems with various files, as both xfs and atd reported

Re: err msg: Warning: Unable to open initial console

2000-02-14 Thread Guy Cohen
No need to reinstall ! Your machine simply can't find /dev/hda or what ever the root partition is installed on. Mount / with a floopy, enter dev directory and run ./MAKEDEV. Guy Cohen. At this (Mon, Feb 14, 2000 at 07:46:17AM +0200) day, Jonathan Ben-Avraham wrote: | On Sun, 13 Feb 2000,

Re: err msg: Warning: Unable to open initial console

2000-02-14 Thread Ariel Biener
On Mon, 14 Feb 2000, Guy Cohen wrote: I don't think so. Since he used fsck, which cleared that many inodes, it is almost certain that the above filesystem was completely thrashed. I would also recommend to re-install. --Ariel No need to reinstall ! Your machine simply can't find