From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 17 3:11:11 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gdmckee.local (gdm.demon.co.uk [193.237.88.62]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72FB837B400 for ; Wed, 17 Jan 2001 03:10:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.0.5] (helo=p300) by gdmckee.local with smtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 14IqTh-00006y-00 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 17 Jan 2001 11:10:09 +0000 Message-ID: <000b01c08075$f800b9e0$0500a8c0@gdmckee.local> From: "G D McKee" To: "freebsd-questions" Subject: SYSTEM will not boot (HELP!!!) Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 11:09:32 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi I reconfigured a spare partition last night and when I booted the box this morning I get the following error (everything before this loos as normal, unfortunately I can't get the log file off the box to include the whole thing, but this is the relevant part, well I think so anyway): Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0S1a elf_load_section: truncating ELF file Jan 17 10:53:20 init: /bin/sh on /etc/rc terminated abnormally, going into single user mode Enter full pathname of shell or RETURN for /bin/sh: When I hit return, nothing, just the same old error(as above). I have managed to get in on /bin/csh. The permissions on the file /bin/sh seemed to be 600 instead of 555. I changed this and rebooted and I am still getting the same error. Does anyone have any ideas on how to get my box back up live? Your help is always much appreciated. Gordon McKee To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message