From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 5 14:56:16 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 259E8106567A for ; Wed, 5 Nov 2008 14:56:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from popofnewslists@gmail.com) Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com (fg-out-1718.google.com [72.14.220.152]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9AB918FC19 for ; Wed, 5 Nov 2008 14:56:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from popofnewslists@gmail.com) Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id l26so25018fgb.35 for ; Wed, 05 Nov 2008 06:56:14 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:sender :to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references :x-google-sender-auth; bh=LMlerkt8e+mNNBIsM2Zumip2ti2d+pSlJfdteR2xfDc=; b=k882xP7gkTBSbpitwjx362Nr9Fkcwbmoo//HGPbamgRksIdqM4tV1Sp9zfHPDpvDfa UBGHjMQx9sQH21ifWvPubyc7AE+ZrBxqIXQJbee/VT42n+Qw8+9OqiMPLRj2h2x2xDbQ FkvVgG4AMfeHEmC7UmYjvhT9vxe2XgLE3+vZg= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=yHd3i162NQ9VmR2KdTGBzzHV27imlnJura0aLpH91LvTshkPSObzl5GvTgMbPQvcSH A+HFmrO5QZzbXu25iaCE3Nd4ojKqZMtAooDs6nRAAL7eoUFf3EugtAbXNZoKo4D0Hpbi 1qENr3q8WRle6+zIrjUi9+1cio8Hv4VTG4qLA= Received: by 10.181.52.14 with SMTP id e14mr298016bkk.47.1225896974170; Wed, 05 Nov 2008 06:56:14 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.181.219.10 with HTTP; Wed, 5 Nov 2008 06:56:14 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <9196e72b0811050656l345793b9j4ca4b3e7cb0ed3ec@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2008 15:56:14 +0100 From: "Popof Popof" Sender: popofnewslists@gmail.com To: "FreeBSD Questions" In-Reply-To: <200811051511.48613.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <9196e72b0811041057m7d33e3fap9a15246def6eb3a2@mail.gmail.com> <44skq69vwf.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> <9196e72b0811050550l57360e0fj7e66bf75ce3dda9f@mail.gmail.com> <200811051511.48613.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> X-Google-Sender-Auth: e8740a0f017838e3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Re: Unable to mount / in read - write mode X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2008 14:56:16 -0000 My laptop has a bootable NIC but I would like to avoid a network installation. I think that I forget to make the installkernel step. I can say that I'm using kernel 6.0 thanks to the output at the start of boot process. I have another old box with a FreeBSD 6.0 kernel so I'll try tonight to get the mount command from it to an usb key and try to use it with my laptop. I'll also try to provide dmesg if I can use this usb key in write mode. 2008/11/5 Mel > On Wednesday 05 November 2008 14:50:05 Popof Popof wrote: > > I can't install FreeBSD 7 from scratch because this is a laptop and the > CD > > drive is dead. > > Is it possible you installed the base system (make installworld), without > having installed the kernel (make installkernel)? > If that's the case, without an external drive or backups, your options to > get > a working system again are very very slim. > The only two things I can think of that would work, is an usb memory card > with > the 6.x mount command on it, that you'd run to remount / rw and take it > from > there. Or a bootable memory card with 7.x kernel. > > However, it would help a lot if you could give a bit more information: > - how does the kernel identify your disk (drive letters and numbers)? > - Can you capture anything like a verbose boot or dmesg? > - Output of `mount -a -d -v' command > - How you determined your upgrade went wrong and you "run 6.x". > > -- > Mel > > Problem with today's modular software: they start with the modules > and never get to the software part. >