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Date:      Wed, 21 May 2003 08:17:39 -0400
From:      "Doug Reynolds" <mav@wastegate.net>
To:        "Andy Farkas" <andyf@speednet.com.au>, "Joshua Oreman" <oremanj@www.get-linux.org>
Cc:        "questions@freebsd.org" <questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: need help repairing this system... mount issues
Message-ID:  <20030521122109.21E3B48463@wastegate.net>
In-Reply-To: <20030519112814.P93323-100000@hewey.af.speednet.com.au>

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On Mon, 19 May 2003 11:31:33 +1000 (EST), Andy Farkas wrote:

>On Sun, 18 May 2003, Joshua Oreman wrote:
>
>> Before you do that, why not try this?
>> Booting [kernel] in 9 seconds... [space]
>> ok boot -s
>> [snip]
>> mountroot> ufs:/dev/ad4s1a
>> [snip]
>> # mount -uw /
>> # cd /dev && sh MAKEDEV ad4
>> # mount -a
>>
>> The key command is 'mount -uw /'. This tells the system to remount /
>> read-write. It does not need the device file used to mount the
>> partition.
>>
>
>Wont work because / is mounted on ad4s1a and it wont let you remount it.
>
>I believe the initial ro mount of / is magical.

last time that happened to me, i had to use the FIXIT cd and fsck it
manually and stuff

---
doug reynolds | the maverick | mav@wastegate.net




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