From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 15 15:28: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from vcnet.com (mail.vcnet.com [209.239.239.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 598DA15123 for ; Sat, 15 Jan 2000 15:28:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jpr@vcnet.com) Received: (qmail 59316 invoked from network); 15 Jan 2000 23:28:05 -0000 Received: from joff.vc.net (HELO ?209.239.239.22?) (209.239.239.22) by mail.vcnet.com with SMTP; 15 Jan 2000 23:28:05 -0000 Mime-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20000115153153.V508@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <20000115153153.V508@fw.wintelcom.net> Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2000 15:28:06 -0800 To: Alfred Perlstein From: Jon Rust Subject: Re: system boots into sysinstall?! Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Well, shoot. Thanks. Fortunately, it was a fresh install on a non-production box. :-/ jon At 3:31 PM -0800 1/15/00, Alfred Perlstein wrote: >* 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