From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 29 23:35:37 2003 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 8204637B401 for ; Thu, 29 May 2003 23:35:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4AD043F93 for ; Thu, 29 May 2003 23:35:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 1EA59527A8; Fri, 30 May 2003 16:05:29 +0930 (CST) Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 16:05:29 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Tom Parquette Message-ID: <20030530063529.GD40976@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <3ED6B43D.8030004@twcny.rr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="19uQFt6ulqmgNgg1" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3ED6B43D.8030004@twcny.rr.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Having problems with fixit floppy mounting filesystems 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: Fri, 30 May 2003 06:35:37 -0000 --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--