We are trying to start SQL Server using SQLSERVR -f - c but the start up fails with the message error log in use
the error log has hundreds of the following messages :

1999/09/23 09:28:20.72 spid2 Lazywriter: WARNING, LRU list is empty (0 free bufs, 94 total bufs)
1999/09/23 09:29:18.41 spid12 bufwait: timeout, BUF_IO, bp 0x10dc500, pg 0x23e345, stat 0x801000/0x6, obj 0x8,
bpss 0x212e278.

We cannot log on using ISQL just hangs. PS We did not receive recovery complete message on the attempted
minimum startup/