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Date:      Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:18:49 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Greg Pavelcak <gpavelcak@philos.umass.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: After make world: "file system mount failed"
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.971027121523.13229D-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.971027140933.gpavelcak@philos.umass.edu>

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On Mon, 27 Oct 1997, Greg Pavelcak wrote:

> mount: exec mount_ not found in /sbin, /usr/sbin: No such file or
> directory
> Filesystem mount failed, startup aborted

This implies that an entry in /etc/fstab neglected to specify an FS type.

> # mount -u /
> mount: exec mount_ not found in /sbin, /usr/sbin: No such file or
> directory
> 
> # mount -a -t ufs
> mount: ufs filesystem is not available (this 3 times)
> 
> Does the stuff in "share" have anything to do with this problem. SInce
> the build quit there the first time, I did "make -DNOSHARE world" but
> forgot to go into /usr/src/share and try to make that stuff.

No, the necessary binaries (mount_*) are in /sbin, which should be built
normally.  Do they actually exist?

This is what I have:

gdi,ttyp1,/sbin,17>ls -l mount_*
-r-xr-xr-x  1 bin   bin   49152 Oct 20 09:35 mount_cd9660*
-r-xr-xr-x  5 bin   bin   49152 Oct 20 09:35 mount_devfs*
-r-xr-xr-x  1 bin   bin   49152 Oct 20 09:35 mount_ext2fs*
-r-xr-xr-x  5 bin   bin   49152 Oct 20 09:35 mount_fdesc*
-r-xr-xr-x  5 bin   bin   49152 Oct 20 09:35 mount_kernfs*
-r-xr-xr-x  1 bin   bin   49152 Oct 20 09:35 mount_lfs*
-r-xr-xr-x  2 bin   bin  122880 Oct 20 09:35 mount_mfs*
-r-sr-xr-x  1 root  bin  139264 Oct 20 09:35 mount_msdos*
-r-xr-xr-x  1 bin   bin  122880 Oct 20 09:35 mount_nfs*
-r-xr-xr-x  1 bin   bin   53248 Oct 20 09:35 mount_null*
-r-xr-xr-x  1 bin   bin  204800 Oct 20 09:35 mount_portal*
-r-xr-xr-x  5 bin   bin   49152 Oct 20 09:35 mount_procfs*
-r-xr-xr-x  5 bin   bin   49152 Oct 20 09:35 mount_std*
-r-xr-xr-x  1 bin   bin   61440 Oct 20 09:35 mount_umap*
-r-xr-xr-x  1 bin   bin   53248 Oct 20 09:35 mount_union*

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Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major





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