Date: Sun, 11 May 2003 09:51:13 +1000 (EST) From: Andy Farkas <andyf@speednet.com.au> To: vizion communication <vizion@ixpres.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to ignore device on fstab on boot? Message-ID: <20030511094657.U30401-100000@hewey.af.speednet.com.au> In-Reply-To: <00bf01c3173b$ca0ced60$15b55042@vizion2000.net>
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On Sat, 10 May 2003, vizion communication wrote:
> The boot fails with fsck naturally being unable to recover.
> What I need to do is persuade the system to boot without
> trying to mount /dev/idad3s1e. However when fsck fails in
> single user mode I am unable to edit the fstab file and
> remove the entry as the file system remains read only.
To edit fstab, boot single user mode then
# fsck -p (ignore the error for idad3s1e)
# mount -u /
# mount -a (ignore error again)
# adjkerntz -i
# vi /etc/fstab (comment out the bad line)
# reboot
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:{ andyf@speednet.com.au
Andy Farkas
System Administrator
Speednet Communications
http://www.speednet.com.au/
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