Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 14:59:41 +0100 From: Daniel Bye <dan@slightlystrange.org> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bootup Problem 4.8-Stable Message-ID: <20030415135941.GA54835@catflap.home.slightlystrange.org> In-Reply-To: <004f01c30354$17edc320$1916c60a@win2k.clickcom.com> References: <004f01c30354$17edc320$1916c60a@win2k.clickcom.com>
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On Tue, Apr 15, 2003 at 09:36:55AM -0400, John Straiton wrote: > I have a machine that was working fine but then upon reboot one day it > failed to come up on it's own. I tinkered a little bit and then finally > just settled on trying a make world/kernel. Upon retrying it this > morning I see this right after it detected the CDRom drive (same error > as before): > > Apr 15 13:26:28 init: login_getclass: unknown class 'daemon' > /etc/rc: Can't open /etc/rc: No such file or directory > Apr 15 13:26:28 init: /etc/spwd.db: No such file or directory > Enter full pathname of shell or RETURN for /bin/sh: > > Then I just > #/sbin/mount /dev/da0s1f /etc > #/sbin/mount -a > #exit > > And we're back up and running. > > Ideas? I couldn't find an example of this question actually being > answered (tho' it's been brought up before) in the list yet. The only > one that seemed answered involved someone who had put /etc on another > drive but as you can see: > > /dev/da0s1a 291M 105M 162M 39% / > /dev/da0s1f 7.1G 26M 6.5G 0% /etc > > Same drive. But, significantly, different partition... -- Daniel Bye PGP Key: ftp://ftp.slightlystrange.org/pgpkey/dan.asc PGP Key fingerprint: 3D73 AF47 D448 C5CA 88B4 0DCF 849C 1C33 3C48 2CDC _ ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) - against HTML, vCards and X - proprietary attachments in e-mail / \
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