Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2000 18:59:17 +0300 From: Odhiambo Washington <vedette@iconnect.co.ke> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: HELP: what to do at mountroot prompt Message-ID: <20000902185917.A74551@siafu.iconnect.co.ke> In-Reply-To: <39B1126D.C76499D4@miltonstreet.com>; from Sam Carleton on Sat, Sep 02, 2000 at 10:45:27AM -0400 References: <39B1126D.C76499D4@miltonstreet.com>
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Quoting Sam Carleton <scarleton@miltonstreet.com>: [000902 17:44]: Sam Carleton>My Freebsd machine lost power, when I went to reboot the machine, it Sam Carleton>comes back to a prompt: Sam Carleton> Sam Carleton>mountroot> Sam Carleton> Sam Carleton>I have figured out that doing a UFS:/dev/ad2s1a will all me to get to a Sam Carleton>command prompt. How do I go about cleaning things up so that I can Sam Carleton>reboot the machine? I have tried fsck /dev/ad2s1a, but it clames it Sam Carleton>cannot find the device. HELP!!!!!!!!! I'm not sure I understand what your explanation is. Please elaborate further. The much you have here can only lead me to start guessing. Someone else must have understood you, just take heart. There are good guys around. -- Odhiambo Washington Systems Administrator Inter-Connect Ltd. 3rd Flr The Chancery Valley Rd PO Box 39519 Nairobi Tel: 254 2 711140 Fax: 254 2 718418 Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. -Theodore Roosevelt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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