From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 23 17:40:10 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA17455 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 23 Jan 1999 17:40:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from server1.imediaconsultants.com (server1.imediaconsultants.com [209.50.164.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA17442 for ; Sat, 23 Jan 1999 17:40:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from admin@imediaconsultants.com) Received: from imediaconsultants.com (pornucopia.imediaconsultants.com [209.50.164.14]) by server1.imediaconsultants.com (8.8.5/8.6.12) with ESMTP id RAA09892 for ; Sat, 23 Jan 1999 17:40:47 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <36AA7A75.C1FFD8A7@imediaconsultants.com> Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1999 17:42:13 -0800 From: admin X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: How to fix a crash Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG My main drive temporaily stopped responding and a series of errors came up so I had to turn off the computer. When I restarted it said: Warning; was not properly dismounted... and I couldn't read the rest and then it ran a series of errors: fstab: /etc/fstab:16490: Inappropriate file type or format fstab: /etc/fstab:(another number): Inappropriate file type or format (ETC for a while......) Then: mount: can't find fstab entry for /. Filesystem mount faied, startup aborted. In /etc/ fstab is not there fstab.bok is there. I am stuck in a read only mode also. Any ideas. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message