Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 18:10:02 +0200 From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> To: Jwhtencate@aol.com Cc: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: uninstall ? Message-ID: <20010831181002.M95956@lpt.ens.fr> In-Reply-To: <bc.1994e7a3.28c10b9d@aol.com>; from Jwhtencate@aol.com on Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 11:47:41AM -0400 References: <bc.1994e7a3.28c10b9d@aol.com>
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First - this is probably the wrong list: try mailing
freebsd-questions@freebsd.org in future.
> During the booting I see
> chflags: not found
> chown not found
> cd: can't cd to /var/run
> cd can't cd to /var/spool/lock
> /etc/rc: cannot create /var/run/desmg.boot:directory nonexistent
> Enter full pathname of shell or RETURN for /bin/sh:
Your system is probably mostly fine, but it is not going multiuser:
therefore it is not mounting filesystems other than the root one, and
it is mounting that readonly. However, from the error message it
looks like it *tried* to go multiuser and failed. Did you mess up
your /etc/fstab by any chance?
Try just starting /bin/sh (press RETURN when it asks above) or
/bin/csh if you prefer, and then try mounting all filesystems
manually. Do this:
cat /etc/fstab
If it does exist, then try
mount /filesystem
for each filesystem listed there. If it complains about the
filesystem being dirty, run fsck on it and then mount it.
My guess is, however, that /etc/fstab does not exist for some reason.
In that case you'll have to remember what the disk partition names
were and what mountpoints they were attached you. The disklabel
program may help you here: assuming FreeBSD is installed on the IDE
disk 0, slice 1, type
disklabel /dev/ad0s1
If you can't even remember that, the command "mount" will tell you
the name of the root partition device (eg /dev/ad0s1a) -- just drop
the last letter (a) to get the slice.
HTH
R
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