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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
>
>
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