Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 16:05:29 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Tom Parquette <tparquet@twcny.rr.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Having problems with fixit floppy mounting filesystems Message-ID: <20030530063529.GD40976@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <3ED6B43D.8030004@twcny.rr.com> References: <3ED6B43D.8030004@twcny.rr.com>
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--19uQFt6ulqmgNgg1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Thursday, 29 May 2003 at 21:30:37 -0400, Tom Parquette wrote: > I was installing an additional hard disk and I believe I commented out > the wrong line in fstab or typo'ed something. The /usr filesystem is > not mounted. The machine will not boot to a command prompt so I can > repair it. It complains bitterly at boot time about not finding things > in the /usr/...... directories. > > I have never broken a system this badly before so this is the first time > I have had to use a fixit floppy. > If I can get the root and usr filesystems mounted r/w I should be able > to "ee" fstab and get myself going. > > I can get to the fixit command prompt but when I issue mount /dev/ad0s1a > /mnt to get the root filesystem mounted all I get is "operation not > permitted". That's because your root file system is dirty (which is normal after a crash). You can fix that with: # fsck -y / Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers --19uQFt6ulqmgNgg1 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+1vuxIubykFB6QiMRArmZAKCbapdCPHcEhB8CFV48kThxgasUUQCfew+n WG+hC2OXkNPE6U4vN0garp8= =4bTc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --19uQFt6ulqmgNgg1--
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