Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2001 23:41:02 -0400 (EDT) From: Joe Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: "Pietralla, Siegfried P" <siegfried.pietralla@eds.com> Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: booting and fstab Message-ID: <20010909234021.C31874-100000@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <16649A8D5C73D51183B80008C728EEB7CC09B2@AUSYM103>
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I'm not sure about altering the mount sequence. I've never done it. However, if you need to mount / read-write in SU mode, do: mount -uw / after running fsck on it. Joe On Mon, 10 Sep 2001, Pietralla, Siegfried P wrote: > hi all, > > i've installed v4.3 on a disk in a caddy which i swap between two pc's. on > one pc the disk is ad1 ( primary slave ) , on the other it's ad3 ( secondary > slave ) . btw, it wouldn't even try to boot as ad2 ( secondary master ) it > just hung ??? now, obviously it won't boot up successfully unless the > entries in /etc/fstab match the physical configuration so as long as i > remember to edit fstab before i shutdown and move the disk i'm ok. to get > around this i tried duplicating ( i.e. two lines for each pn ) the entries > in fstab to match both configs ( i.e. ad1s3a / AND ad3s3a / ) but it still > won't boot by itself since one of these will always fail to mount. is there > any way i can amend the default boot process so that it ignores errors in > mounting and the system ( tries and ) comes up anyway? > > also, when it drops me into the default shell, how can i edit /etc/fstab > since at this time / is mounted read-only? i tried to mount the root > partition on /mnt as well but it wouldn't let me. > > thanx, > siegfried. > > siegfried pietralla ( siegfried.pietralla@eds.com ) > ph: +61 3 9675 3234 fax: +61 3 9675 3440 mob: +61 4 0481 6140 > location: 15th floor 2-26 Elizabeth Street, Melbourne Vic, 3000 > mail: Siegfried Pietralla 15/2, Colonial Account, > EDS Australia, 436 St Kilda Rd, Melbourne Vic, 3004 > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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