From owner-freebsd-current Fri Mar 10 14:49:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mass.cdrom.com (mass.cdrom.com [204.216.28.184]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7871537BF40; Fri, 10 Mar 2000 14:49:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Received: from mass.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA00634; Fri, 10 Mar 2000 14:49:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <200003102249.OAA00634@mass.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: R Joseph Wright Cc: Mike Smith , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: single user mode problem In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 10 Mar 2000 11:21:15 PST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 14:49:45 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > > Regardless, this is typically syptomatic of either a very old > > /boot/loader, non-use of the loader eg. through a /boot.config file, or > > an error in the entry for / in /etc/fstab. > > > > Isn't /boot/loader updated upon making a new world? If so, it ought to be > current. I don't know any way of finding out since it's a binary file. That's correct. If the loader is run, there is no way for 'wd' to become involved in the process unless a disk error occurs reading from the 'ad' driver. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message