From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 28 01:00:39 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E495C16A420 for ; Sat, 28 Jan 2006 01:00:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from pi.codefab.com (pi.codefab.com [199.103.21.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E5C343D4C for ; Sat, 28 Jan 2006 01:00:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD98B5D20; Fri, 27 Jan 2006 20:00:38 -0500 (EST) Received: from pi.codefab.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (pi.codefab.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 88811-09; Fri, 27 Jan 2006 20:00:38 -0500 (EST) Received: from [192.168.1.3] (pool-68-160-211-174.ny325.east.verizon.net [68.160.211.174]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E395C5CA3; Fri, 27 Jan 2006 20:00:37 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <43DAC238.2080802@mac.com> Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 20:00:40 -0500 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows/20051201) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Paul Schmehl References: <200601272249.26518.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at codefab.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD drops to single user mode 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: Sat, 28 Jan 2006 01:00:40 -0000 Paul Schmehl wrote: > --On Friday, January 27, 2006 22:49:25 +0000 RW > wrote: [ ... ] >>> Here's my fstab, if that illuminates anything: >>> >>> ... >>> /dev/ad5s1d /files ufs rw >>> 2 2 >> >> >> If you neglected to comment-out this line, FreeBSD would be looking for >> this partition, which doesn't exist on the Windows drive. > > I suspected that was the case, but if so, why did mount -a work? "mount -a" does the best it can, and will even remount / for historical reasons: /etc/rc used to mount / ro in single-user mode, run fsck, and then remount / "rw" once fsck had finished, before going multiuser. The system intends to have all of the listed filesystems in fstab mounted before starting daemons and the like which will expect their files to be available; if it can't make a filesystem available, it stays in single-user mode waiting for a human to solve the problem. If you remove a device containing a filesystem listed in fstab, you should either comment out that line or use the noauto keyword. -- -Chuck