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From: Srinivasa Kanduru <ksraghavan@yahoo.com>
Subject: Problem in system startup
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Hi,

A couple of days back there was a power cut and my
FreeBSD (4.4) system won't boot up fully. It bails out
while during mounting. It mounts all the file systems
and while mounting procfs it gives the error message:

mount: exec mount_procfs not found in /sbin and
/usr/sbin: ENOENT

and gives a prompt for entering a shell.

/bin/sh doesn't work.

It fails with the error message:

init: can't exec /bin/sh for single user: Permission
denied.

Luckily I have another FreeBSD partition using which I
can boot up and when I looked at the executables, all
the executables are "unbranded" so they won't run. It
was started running once I branded them as FreeBSD
executables, but I still see the above two error
messages.

I can run zsh when the prompt is given for running the
shell. But I can't run any other executables in that
shell. It gives permission denied error.

Not sure why the executables have become "unbranded"
in the first place and though they run properly when I
boot from other partition, they don't run when I boot
from the original partition.


Appreciate your help

Thanks,
Sri.


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