From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 1 21:29:56 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sunny.pacific.net.sg (sunny.pacific.net.sg [203.120.90.127]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4948837B400 for ; Fri, 1 Dec 2000 21:29:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from pop1.pacific.net.sg (pop1.pacific.net.sg [203.120.90.85]) by sunny.pacific.net.sg with ESMTP id eB25Too08168; Sat, 2 Dec 2000 13:29:50 +0800 (SGT) Received: from danielsee (spoff26.pacific.net.sg [203.120.95.26]) by pop1.pacific.net.sg with SMTP id NAA04373; Sat, 2 Dec 2000 13:29:50 +0800 (SGT) Message-ID: <017901c05c20$f5dbb760$1a5f78cb@danielsee> From: "James Lim" To: "brian william wolter" Cc: "Tunjie Sumner" , References: Subject: Re: Installation Problem Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2000 13:30:19 +0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG During boot, press any key to go to the command prompt and type in boot -s to go into single user mode. Regards, James Lim ----- Original Message ----- From: "brian william wolter" To: "James Lim" Cc: "Tunjie Sumner" ; Sent: Saturday, December 02, 2000 1:37 PM Subject: Re: Installation Problem > just because this reminded me of it... how do you boot to single user > mode? > > peace, > brian > > > t h e S a d M a c h i n e . o r g > > On Sat, 2 Dec 2000, James Lim wrote: > > > Hi there, > > > > Try to run fsck when you are in single user mode. See if it works! > > > > Regards, > > James Lim > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "brian william wolter" > > To: "Tunjie Sumner" > > Cc: > > Sent: Saturday, December 02, 2000 1:31 PM > > Subject: Re: Installation Problem > > > > > > > well, i'm not too sure how exactly to solve your problem, but i once had a > > > similar one while messing with my /etc/rc configuration. i do know that > > > in order to edit anything (as in write to the fs) you first have to mount > > > the filesystem manually... something like: mount /dev/ad5s1 only whatever > > > device your root fs is on. > > > > > > hope that helps > > > > > > peace, > > > brian > > > > > > > > > t h e S a d M a c h i n e . o r g > > > > > > On Fri, 1 Dec 2000, Tunjie Sumner wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > I am a novice with the FreeBSD 4.1 software. I was in the process of > > newly > > > > installing my software. I was configuring the X Server during the > > initial > > > > or first installation when my system froze on me. I then cold boot or > > > > turned off the computer off and then on again. I am using the BSD > > Desktop > > > > Edition-UNIX OS version 4.1. I need some assistance in getting the > > > > software running. I am able to boot and I received these system > > messages: > > > > > > > > Mounting root from ufs :/dev/ad1sa3 > > > > WARNING: /mnt was not properly mounted > > > > Swapon: adding /dev/ad1s3b as swap device > > > > Automatic boot in progress > > > > /dev/ad1s3a: LINK COUNT FILE 1=6273 owner = root MODE=20640 > > > > /dev/ad1s3a: SIZE=0 MTIME = Nov 30 16:06 2000 COUNT 1 SHOULD BE 2 > > > > /dev/ad1s3a: LINK COUNT INCREASING > > > > /dev/ad1s3a: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY > > > > Automatic file system check failed...help! > > > > Enter full pathname of shell or RETURN for /bin/sh: > > > > > > > > > > > > After reading the boot message above I then proceeded to enter(E) the > > > > following command and received(R) the system's response: > > > > > > > > (E) /stand/sysinstall > > > > (R) Error opening terminal: cons25 > > > > (E) mkdir /usr/var > > > > (R) mkdir: /usr/var: Read-only file system > > > > (E) tar cf - .1 (cd /usr/var; tar xf - ) > > > > (R) tar: not found > > > > cd: can't cd to /usr/var > > > > tar: not found > > > > > > > > > > > > Please reply ASAP > > > > Regards > > > > Tunjie L. Sumner > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > 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 > > > > > > > > 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