From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 25 18:10:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from zeus.oznet.com (zeus.oznet.com [206.138.44.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 497BC37B43E for ; Fri, 25 Aug 2000 18:10:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from oznet.com (c568016-a.sprgfld1.mo.home.com [24.22.12.118]) by zeus.oznet.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) with ESMTP id UAA08167 for ; Fri, 25 Aug 2000 20:06:22 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <39A718CA.DB10361A@oznet.com> Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 20:09:31 -0500 From: Jim Turner Reply-To: jim@oznet.com Organization: BIMS X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: filesystem won't mount References: <39A5E5EE.DBC8FFD2@oznet.com> <44k8d5v1o4.fsf@lowellg.ne.mediaone.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thanks for the help. It turned out that the system was trying to mount the cdrom which it could not find. Jim Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Jim Turner writes: > > > Help! > > > > I used webadmin to shutdown my freebsd server yesterday so I could > > install my new battery backup. After I click the button to shutdown I > > waited a while then turned the power off. When I started it backup > > failed to load the filesystem, yet I can get in and use shell commands. > > > > I'm running version 3.5 on an i686 450mhz with 256meg of ram if that > > helps. Is there a way to rebuild the registry like in windows? I did > > have apache, php4 and mysql running before. > > > > ps. next time I'll telnet in to shutdown. > > It's hard to say what's wrong exactly, without more information, but > you should make sure to fsck(8) your filesystems in single-user mode > to make sure they're clean. Then make sure that /etc/fstab is > correct. If you're still lost after that, send the actual error > messages for the experts to look over. > > Yes, it is quite important to shut down properly. An fsck usually > fixes the problem, though. > > Good luck. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message