From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 15 15: 9:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C99814D38 for ; Sat, 15 Jan 2000 15:09:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bright@fw.wintelcom.net) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id PAA09494; Sat, 15 Jan 2000 15:31:53 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2000 15:31:53 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Jon Rust Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: system boots into sysinstall?! Message-ID: <20000115153153.V508@fw.wintelcom.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from jpr@vcnet.com on Sat, Jan 15, 2000 at 09:54:35AM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Jon Rust [000115 10:17] wrote: > After a strange system panic I booted up into single user mode, and > ran "fsck -y /". It went through a bunch of inode fixes, then said to > reboot and run fsck again. I rebooted, typing boot -s at the prompt. > The system now boots into the installation menu everytime. ??? Should > I scrap, or is there a way to fix this? you've lost /sbin/init, get out a fixit floppy or reinstall. -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message