From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 13 21:30:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp10.atl.mindspring.net (smtp10.atl.mindspring.net [207.69.200.246]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94E0F14F41 for ; Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:30:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from allenc@mindsieve.com) Received: from spamer_death (user-38lcbpo.dsl.mindspring.com [209.86.47.56]) by smtp10.atl.mindspring.net (8.9.3/8.8.5) with SMTP id AAA31239 for ; Fri, 14 Jan 2000 00:30:16 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.20000114003016.00828100@mindsieve.com> X-Sender: allenc@mindsieve.com (Unverified) X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2000 00:30:16 -0500 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Allen Cleveland Subject: Re: single user mode? FIXED! In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.20000111191722.0085e760@mindsieve.com> References: <3.0.5.32.20000111160803.0105e980@midwest.net> <3.0.5.32.20000111165609.007d8ea0@mindsieve.com> <387B97D5.93732C92@nwlink.com> <3.0.5.32.20000110173243.0081e290@mindsieve.com> <3.0.5.32.20000110233539.00820100@mindsieve.com> <3.0.5.32.20000111024132.007ccca0@mindsieve.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG As it turns out the 'not found' message could have refered to three things: 1) the mount command 2) the directory /mnt 3) the device da0s1a Someone on another forum suggested that /mnt might not exist, which got me thinking that perhaps the slice didn't exist. I went to disklable and, behold! no mount point assignments. I went thru the upgrade as far as saving the kernel to /kernel.prev and then changed to vc4 where I successfully changed roots passwd, quit the upgrade, rebooted and subsequently have access to the system again. I did need to specify 'boot /kernel.prev' to boot the system, however, the mistake I made was assuming I knew that the error could only be refering to one thing. Lesson learned. At 07:17 PM 1/11/00 -0500, Allen Cleveland wrote: > >Good Idea! > >Anyone in the Atlanta, GA area? > >At 04:08 PM 1/11/00 -0600, Jonathan E. Lyons wrote: >> >>I never do have much luck with the fixit floppies. Usually I'll "rip" the >>drive out and stick into another FreeBSD box, and then mount it, make >>changes, then replace the drive. Just a though.... :/ >> >>At 04:56 PM 1/11/00 -0500, Allen Cleveland wrote: >>> >>>No mount in /sbin :( >>> >>>I'm going to wait a day or so to see if any other ideas crop up... if not >>>I guess I'll install fresh >>> >>>Thanks for trying with this wierd problem, Joseph. >>> >>>At 12:51 PM 1/11/00 -0800, R Joseph Wright wrote: >>>> >>>>> Booting with floppies (boot -s), then going to the fixit disk: >>>>> >>>>> Fixit# /sbin/mount -t ufs /dev/da0s1a /mnt >>>>> /sbin/mount: not found >>>> >>>>Maybe what you need to do is "cd /sbin". If you see mount there, do >>>>"./mount -t ufs /dev/da0s1a /mnt". If this doesn't work then I'm >>>>stumped. >>>> >>> >>>-- >>>Allen Cleveland allenc@mindsieve.com >>>There is no try. Do, or do not do, but no try. -Yoda >>>Hate spam? Try SpamCop: http://spamcop.net/ >>> >>> >>>To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >>>with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message >>> >>> >> >>Jonathan E. Lyons >>parrothd@midwest.net Nucleus Consulting >>ICQ # 14226912 www.nucleusconsulting.com >>Cell # 773-251-1967 A+, MCSE, CCNA, FreeBSD! >> >> >> >>To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >>with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message >> >-- >Allen Cleveland allenc@mindsieve.com >There is no try. Do, or do not do, but no try. -Yoda >Hate spam? Try SpamCop: http://spamcop.net/ > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > -- Allen Cleveland allenc@mindsieve.com There is no try. Do, or do not do, but no try. -Yoda Hate spam? Try SpamCop: http://spamcop.net/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message