Date: Fri, 03 Jan 1997 07:41:50 -0500 From: Jean-Marc Henriette <jeanmarc@starfleet.umd.edu> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: fixing and instalation Message-ID: <32CCFE8E.4120@starfleet.umd.edu>
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I messed up.... here's what I did.. is this recoverable? I looked at my fstab and said humm twould be nice to be able to write to my DOS partition from FreeBSD so I changed it so that it would (as in I changed it from read-only to R/W) then I tried to mount -a it din't work.. said drive busy for all of them . Rather then sticking to this I went off and played around in X for a while.. I ended up rebooting my machine (cause i was dumb) .... bottom line, now the system won't come up at all.. it gets as far as telling me that / was improperly dismounted, and thats it.. here's what I tried to do to fix it.. the goal I set in mind was to remove the msdos mount from fstab (figuring that is whats causing it to hang) it never gets to the part where it fixes the superblk. I got the fixit.flp image and ran that, tried to mount the hard-drive so I could edit that file.. but no go it won't let me mount it because it was shut down improperly. how do I fix this? Am I hosed? do I need to reinstall the whole thing again?? thanks for the help! -JM
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