From owner-freebsd-doc Fri Aug 31 9:10: 8 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from nef.ens.fr (nef.ens.fr [129.199.96.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D80037B406 for ; Fri, 31 Aug 2001 09:10:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from corto.lpt.ens.fr (corto.lpt.ens.fr [129.199.122.2]) by nef.ens.fr (8.10.1/1.01.28121999) with ESMTP id f7VGA2m92510 ; Fri, 31 Aug 2001 18:10:02 +0200 (CEST) Received: from (rsidd@localhost) by corto.lpt.ens.fr (8.9.3/jtpda-5.3.1) id SAA12565 ; Fri, 31 Aug 2001 18:10:02 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 18:10:02 +0200 From: Rahul Siddharthan To: Jwhtencate@aol.com Cc: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: uninstall ? Message-ID: <20010831181002.M95956@lpt.ens.fr> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from Jwhtencate@aol.com on Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 11:47:41AM -0400 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message