Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 00:16:21 -0800 From: Patrick Fish <pfish@pwhsnet.com> To: <kdk@daleco.biz> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.9 rebooting into single user mode Message-ID: <20043301621.578692@patrick> In-Reply-To: <4045822E.50003@daleco.biz>
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> > I would suggest that something is wrong. FreeBSD > generally doesn't boot into single user mode unless it's either > told to, or has to. The most likely probable cause is a bad HDD*, > but there may be other possibilities. > > What happens after someone does enter the default shell path? Does > another reboot cure the problem? What console messages (if any, > but there should be some) appear to be abnormal prior to the boot > prompt? Usually, another reboot fixes the problem, yes. However, this last time was= due to some /etc/fstab error, don't have the exact error since the folks at= the NOC couldn't remember it, I finally got it fixed, not sure how, but the= idents wern't in fstab...I added them back and it worked for some reason. I suspect it might drop into single user mode to fsck...but from my= experiences with the boxes I have here, it does that on a normal boot if it= needs to, not single user... > > Kevin Kinsey > DaleCo, S.P. > > > More specifically, bad sectors or whatnot; anything requiring a > fsck....
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