From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 25 8:13:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ko.com (gatekeeper.ko.com [205.160.52.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9CE2937B401 for ; Thu, 25 Oct 2001 08:13:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: by ko.com; id LAA17482; Thu, 25 Oct 2001 11:13:45 -0400 (EDT) Received: from atlg05.atl.ko.com(151.162.240.9) by gatekeeper.ko.com via smap (V4.2) id xma016367; Thu, 25 Oct 01 11:12:05 -0400 Subject: Re: boot hang To: leburke@mindspring.com, "questions@freebsd.org" X-Mailer: Lotus Notes Release 5.0.5 September 22, 2000 Message-ID: From: "Ed Lineberry" Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 11:12:04 -0400 X-MIMETrack: Serialize by Router on ATLG05/GTY/NA/TCCC(Release 5.0.8 |June 18, 2001) at 10/25/2001 11:12:05 AM MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I ran into this last night and spent about an hour panicking before I could make it work. Here's what I did: - at the countdown prompt, hit a key to boot with options - type boot -s - when you get to the shell type: mount / mount /usr moutn /var -this should get you what you need to edit /etc/fstab with vi and fix the mount problem HTH, - Ed ----------------- Original Message --------leburke@mindspring.com---------- Question I have a machine that won't boot completely because, it tells me, it can't mount an NFS partition. Problem is it just hangs there, so I can't get into the machine to change anything. The question is : Is there a way to boot up into "safe mode" so that I can at least read the error logs or something. ? slight panic, but Ilm not screaming yet Thanks To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message