From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 7 01:20:19 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 783B316A4D0 for ; Wed, 7 Jan 2004 01:20:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from sarek.skynet.be (sarek.skynet.be [195.238.3.230]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C605343D46 for ; Wed, 7 Jan 2004 01:20:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tijl@ulyssis.org) Received: from localhost (130.205-201-80.adsl.skynet.be [80.201.205.130]) id i079K6Cg018524 for ; Wed, 7 Jan 2004 10:20:06 +0100 (envelope-from ) Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 10:20:06 +0100 From: Tijl Coosemans To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-Id: <20040107102006.329a7088.tijl@ulyssis.org> In-Reply-To: <20040106223548.X89072@rocket.alienwebshop.com> References: <20040104181025.B21865@rocket.alienwebshop.com> <16376.63200.557751.495726@guru.mired.org> <20040106223548.X89072@rocket.alienwebshop.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.8a (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.9) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-RAVMilter-Version: 8.4.3(snapshot 20030212) (sarek.skynet.be) Subject: Re: fixit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2004 09:20:19 -0000 On Tue, 6 Jan 2004 22:55:29 -0500 (EST), Peter Leftwich wrote: > I like how you say that - "a place to stand." It's a good lead-in for > my question: The problem is this... the fixit shell is started and it > doesn't really show you WHAT it is technically doing. Is it started > in RAM(/ramdisk/) or does it mount the FreeBSD partition on the HDD? > Or what. It's been a while since I've had to use it, but as far as I can remember it has a basic directory structure in / and another one, the fixit media, in /mnt2. Some tools and device nodes are in the first, some in the second one. > The problem is that root on my HDD has to be mounted before I can use > /bin or /sbin tools - and isn't mount /sbin/mount ??? Try running fsck on the root partition before you mount it. Both fsck and mount should be available in the fixit shell. To mount a root filesystem on ad0s1a: # fsck -p /mnt2/dev/ad0s1a # mount -t ufs /mnt2/dev/ad0s1a /mnt I hope I got all the paths right, if not, search arround a bit, they should be there somewhere.