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Darryl Hoar wrote:
>> am setting up gmirror and screwed up my fstab.  When rebooting,
>> it complains until I tell it the root device:
>> ufs:/dev/mirror/gm0s1a
> 
>>> add
> 
>>> vfs.root.mountfrom="ufs:mirror/gm0s1a"
> 
>>> to /boot/loader.conf
> 
> How do I do that when / is automatically being mounted
> read only ?
> 
>> it boots up and dumps me into single user.  When I try to change
>> /etc/fstab, it tells me that the parition is mounted read only.
> 
>>> do
> 
>>> mount -uw /dev/gm0s1a /
> 
>>> and then edit
> 
> how can I mount / again when its already mounted ?  When I said single
> user, maybe that wasn't the right thing to say.  When I tell it the
> root partition (/dev/mirror/gm0s1a), it then asks me to choose a shell
> (bin/sh being the default).  When I select the shell it takes me to
> a command line where only / is mounted.
> 
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ufs:mirror/gm0s1a
fsck -p /
mount /