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Date:      Tue, 25 Jul 2000 19:58:50 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Sudhindra Bengeri <bengeri@torrentnet.com>
To:        freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: booting single usr mode: / was not properly dismounted
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95.1000725195840.25244B-100000@castillo.torrentnet.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.1000725193111.24971A-100000@castillo.torrentnet.com>

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Sorry, I had a typo in my prev posting. I had written 

"the root-device is not mounted read-only" it should have been 
"the root-device is now mounted read-only".

Rgds,
Sudhin


On Tue, 25 Jul 2000, Sudhindra Bengeri wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> The primary kernel file, /kernel has some problem, I have a backup of this
> file on the /home filesystem. The other kernel file that I have in the
> root device fails to boot in the multiuser mode. 
> 
> I tried entering the single user mode, by
> 
> boot: /kernel.ORIG -s
> 
> This boots up but gives the following warning
> 
> WARNING: / was not properly dismounted
> 
> the root-device is not mounted read-only. Is there any way by which I can
> dismount this read-only filesystem and mount it as read-write.
> 
> Thanks in anticipation.
> 
> Regards,
> Sudhin
> 
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