From owner-freebsd-current Fri Mar 10 2: 3:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from aragorn.neomedia.it (aragorn.neomedia.it [195.103.207.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2893037B99C for ; Fri, 10 Mar 2000 02:03:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bartequi@neomedia.it) Received: from bartequi.ottodomain.org (ppp40-pa4.neomedia.it [195.103.207.232]) by aragorn.neomedia.it (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id LAA32722; Fri, 10 Mar 2000 11:03:26 +0100 (CET) From: Salvo Bartolotta Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 10:06:49 GMT Message-ID: <20000310.10064900@bartequi.ottodomain.org> Subject: Re: single user mode problem To: R Joseph Wright , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG References: X-Mailer: SuperCalifragilis X-Priority: 3 (Normal) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< On 3/10/00, 9:51:06 AM, R Joseph Wright wrote regarding single user mode problem: > This has been going on for awhile, and I've looked everywhere for a > solution. When I boot single user, the / filesystem gets mounted on > wd0s4a even though /dev does not even have such an entry nor does > /etc/fstab, since these have all been updated. > This is not really such a problem until I try to exit from single user= > mode. Then, it tries to remount / on ad0s4a and can't find it. Dear Joseph, as I have recently written, I met an analogous problem while upgrading to CURRENT: the "wdNsMa syndrome" appeared when I rebooted in s.u.m. with the shining gleaming roaring freshly-made 4.0-CURRENT kernel in order to (somehow) make installworld. Well, I did NOT care about it and I went ahead ruthlessly ... By the way, I made another kernel at the end of the process ("by the book"). I suppose (?) this cleared the problem. In fact, I was able to boot with no weird messages: all my filesystems were correctly identified as adNsM (e.g. ad1s2a, ad1s2e ...) HTH, Salvo To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message