From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 14 15:51:08 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1D9A1065679 for ; Fri, 14 Mar 2008 15:51:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jason.w.barnes@gmail.com) Received: from fk-out-0910.google.com (fk-out-0910.google.com [209.85.128.185]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A40B8FC29 for ; Fri, 14 Mar 2008 15:51:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jason.w.barnes@gmail.com) Received: by fk-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id b27so4790013fka.11 for ; Fri, 14 Mar 2008 08:51:07 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; bh=o0gtxnDJgjgkbFl4bLLF7tbTR2SINntua5YyntPOi5o=; b=YFTTK70dDyk5w6+QWQeRCz8RRnb/PfroAHHNgc0KmnPIW1Ik2IYxxrjnZtETfzPXM7fYJTAfiJVscSOBXSAGH9eJ9Nwlyolt9pQDKNxD2A4v2LHTlVjOgbXZHerHR3/PNGZ4r3xKq1kZNVUsIrv1X2QHcpKXp2HqzJIRU1C/gQQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=dAiyOuk0X68BPu4gCpX5tfoaGP0X/PCNH7HkjHqTxrOEPMR8jcLnfC9XdI1JZrjk7QXqiOla/gnJECLaFxBKZ07Xhp5T0FLgG9ABjg2Sl9SuhrMqePCm7X3P6ZKogwJ7qskSMw31agI51Xb9x9Fzvt6TDe7IHOvpbSgAqQ0GU3k= Received: by 10.82.118.2 with SMTP id q2mr26805486buc.27.1205508297448; Fri, 14 Mar 2008 08:24:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.82.181.13 with HTTP; Fri, 14 Mar 2008 08:24:57 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 08:24:57 -0700 From: "Jason Barnes" To: questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Cc: Subject: interactive stop on boot 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, 14 Mar 2008 15:51:08 -0000 Hi -- I'm running a "Tombstone" machine that's functioning as a server. The machine is located somewhere with a fast connection, and not somewhere that I have easy access to. As such, I want this machine to do its best to boot up and get onto the network, no matter what happens on boot, so that I have a chance to actually fix the problem. Lately when it boots it runs into an NFS mounting error, claiming that some of my NFS-mounted drives have unexpected inconsistencies. It says "unexpected error - help!" and then quits to a /bin/sh single-user-mode prompt. As I am 10 miles away, this is decidedly unhelpful. I don't care if it can't mount some irrelevant drive or not; I want it to boot up and ask me questions later. Is there a way that I can set the machine to do its best to boot no matter what it finds at boot time? Thanks in advance for any help you can provide, - Jason PS -- Boot messages not available, as the machine is down at the moment and I can't get over there to type " exit" until later this afternoon.