From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 30 21: 6:57 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4688F14D3B for ; Wed, 30 Jun 1999 21:06:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) id AAA17109; Thu, 1 Jul 1999 00:08:08 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from cjc) From: "Crist J. Clark" Message-Id: <199907010408.AAA17109@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Subject: Re: problem with filesystem mount during boot In-Reply-To: <06f001bec368$4d163a30$03b936cf@apk.net> from Matthew Englehart at "Jun 30, 99 10:20:26 pm" To: englehar@apk.net (Matthew Englehart) Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1999 00:08:08 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: cjclark@home.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Matthew Englehart wrote, > SHORT VERSION: > I installed FreeBSD 2.2.8 on a single HD, after a DOS partition. > During boot, I receive the error > > /dev/wd0s2a on /: specified device does not match mounted device > Filesystem mount failed, startup aborted > > LONG VERSION: > I can then hit Enter to startup /bin/sh in the root directory. > I can also then manually mount /usr (on /dev/wd0s2e), but not /. > If I try to mount / it tells me that fsck needs to be run. When > I run fsck it says the clean flags of /dev/wd0s2a and /dev/wd0s2e > need to be set. I set them, but even after rebooting this > whole process is repeated and the clean flags always come up > needing to be set. OK, just want to make sure... When you say you are 'rebooting' here, you do mean that you are rebooting gracefully (like reboot(8), shutdown(8), or halt(8)) and _NOT_ power cycling the machine or doing something where the system is stopped before completely stopping? -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message