On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, Technolord wrote:

> Hello.

Hi,

> I just re-installed 1.4.1/i386 (X wasn't willing to work in any possible
> way, and some more) with repartitioning (460M for '/', 40M for swap). I
> installed from the netbsd CD I got from the net, and no errors were
> reported at all.
> Then (just after installation completion and no configuration file
> modified) I tried to read the other partitions with mbrlabel wd0 as
> root. After doing that, no other command did work at all: any issued

Okay i understand you executed mbrlabel wd0 and on your first harddisk is
your netbsd right? Now........ dont use mbrlabel on a disk with mounted
partitions. Then indeed, nothing will work anymore and you will get
crashes especially in x. I dont hope you got some corrupted data now.
Plz run fsck on the partitions. However, after a reboot you should be able
again to work normally. When you know you are gonna execute operations
that can be risky and may cause a crash, plz use sync before doing so.


> command like {fdisk, disklabel, man, pwd} caused the return to the login
> prompt (!!!) with no apparent cause. One time it started giving me core
> dumps and "wrong parameter for <any_issued_command", one other time it
> went debug mode with some kind of consistency error, and anoter time it
> just crashed. I rebooted so many times I hardcy can count them. 
> Any help would be VERY appreciated.
> 

So right now, after the reboots you still get errors? But.... what
happens? Every time you reboot you use mbrlabel wd0?
Or after the one time you used mbrlabel it keeps doing this?
Give some more details about what happens.
Bye,

Reinoud.