From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 7 16:18:43 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CED841065674 for ; Fri, 7 Aug 2009 16:18:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from identry@gmail.com) Received: from mail-fx0-f224.google.com (mail-fx0-f224.google.com [209.85.220.224]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58EA28FC08 for ; Fri, 7 Aug 2009 16:18:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm24 with SMTP id 24so1732689fxm.36 for ; Fri, 07 Aug 2009 09:18:42 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:received:in-reply-to :references:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=p9n4ayGOUI9heq8ZdWVwNqtz92QMSEuA2kANsWJHPZY=; b=W7e/FvXRiIfsPjxMX1to0BaIgOFQ9+y/TxzlQQ/F5Rq6TPzXVoDSRqj2uqHOT3KsXk lvFI28C8vBIRv83cMfYVGWtZlk9w72IKxlU7MWpHtmnHsGmSpowsfBIg7CjvwQzdFYT0 SHa4pge+LIJF2nkUkq3PudyeiMcspCTsp1EIk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=Yz536SrBKBho67gK+2XX/mjoM98PrcRPfHvPjUdwgjJ+rpGLwOSYZHxb7BE/WcGWWN Z6gyt416uDcJPwlXvu7x1XOByUy5RKd+Mi2yJSGd6P08y1/CyQaW5ABtiMlrYjO9Dp32 c5rb3yuJx2eVluE7sUo5BXCDInL5h14d+uDd8= MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: identry@gmail.com Received: by 10.204.124.7 with SMTP id s7mr3323763bkr.105.1249661921592; Fri, 07 Aug 2009 09:18:41 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <991123400908070911j3483aa48sa84c501a743bba28@mail.gmail.com> References: <4d4e09680908061012q6ea8aeacm875c556eaea7a54f@mail.gmail.com> <4A7B1B41.7090507@unsane.co.uk> <4d4e09680908061733v21602321x252a7111a7648ad6@mail.gmail.com> <4A7C074C.9060303@unsane.co.uk> <4d4e09680908070825h6f42e692t8cf0baa4f10f9cc@mail.gmail.com> <991123400908070911j3483aa48sa84c501a743bba28@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2009 12:18:41 -0400 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 94861a9bda1b4e33 Message-ID: <4d4e09680908070918u51f9f815oe808580339fe1731@mail.gmail.com> From: Identry To: =?ISO-2022-JP?B?T2RoaWFtYm8gGyRCJW8lNyVzJUglcxsoQg==?= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Boot failure X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 07 Aug 2009 16:18:44 -0000 > fsck is run when all file systems are unmounted! > > If you can, choose single use mode, press enter when it says something like > "/bin/sh" (I don't remember the wordings) and then on the subsequent > prompt,, > # fsck -y [Press enter here] > > That is all you need. Once it completes, it will bring back the prompt (the > hash prompt). If there are no major problems detected, you can simply go > ahead and type "exit" at the prompt and press enter and see what happens. But it doesn't boot into single user mode, so I can't just do fsck -y. And I'm wondering if -y is too dangerous. -- John