Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 14:09:06 +0100 From: Kurt Jaeger <lists@opsec.eu> To: Alban Hertroys <haramrae@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: 10.1RC1 armv6 RPI-B stuck in single user mode Message-ID: <20141029130906.GI66862@home.opsec.eu> In-Reply-To: <CAF-3MvMTXphsXpuQqGnwtHM_3WXSeJCWJfUNttxphuYXFmKeBA@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAF-3MvMTXphsXpuQqGnwtHM_3WXSeJCWJfUNttxphuYXFmKeBA@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi! > We have a Raspberry Pi here that was working fine, but because my > colleagues tend to reboot the thing by unplugging the power, the root > file-system got dirty. > To fsck the root file-system, I attempted to boot it into single-user > mode using nextboot -o "-s" -k kernel. > > Unfortunately, it never shows the single user mode prompt. The system > gets stuck trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/mmcsd0s2a > > And it does that every time I attempt to boot it, because that > nextboot flag never gets cleared! > There doesn't appear to be any method of interrupting the boot loader > on the Pi either. > > How do I get out of this pickle? Put the SD card into some other device, e.g. some laptop with FreeBSD, run the fsck there ? -- pi@opsec.eu +49 171 3101372 6 years to go !
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