From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 16 13:01:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA28759 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 16 Oct 1998 13:01:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA28733 for ; Fri, 16 Oct 1998 13:00:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA11549; Fri, 16 Oct 1998 13:00:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 13:00:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: BEAUPRE Antoine cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Splashed root: almost there! In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 13 Oct 1998, BEAUPRE Antoine wrote: > I recently made the mistake of busting (newfs-ing) my root partition. I've > been able to build the binaries necessaries to run the system, and /usr > was not damaged. But now, for some obscure reason, the sysinstall program > rnus on startup... THis is weird, I've rebuilded the kernel, and I can't > do anything more than run the fixit floppy. If /sbin/init is missing or damaged it'll fall back to /stand/sysinstall. Boot -v and watch near the very end. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message