From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 26 03:37:06 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA29103 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 26 Oct 1998 03:37:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from world.virtual-earth.de (world.virtual-earth.de [194.231.209.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA29082 for ; Mon, 26 Oct 1998 03:36:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mathiasp@world.virtual-earth.de) Received: from world.virtual-earth.de (localhost.virtual-earth.de [127.0.0.1]) by world.virtual-earth.de (8.9.1/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA27317 for ; Mon, 26 Oct 1998 12:35:54 +0100 (MET) Message-Id: <199810261135.MAA27317@world.virtual-earth.de> Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1998 12:35:51 +0100 (MET) From: Mathias Picker Subject: HELP! Lost my root device entries, can't create them 'cause root is mounted read-only To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG OK, I lost my root device entry wd0s2a. :-( Now I can only boot single-user, with root mounted read-only, and I can't "mount -u -w /" because wd0s2a doesn't exists. ("mount: file doesn't exist" or something like that) Now the hard part: I can't get the fixit floppy to work!! The system is a 3.0-current from the day before 3.0 release (I guess this shouldn't matter much), and I'm using the 3.0-release boot and fixit images. I can boot, choose the fixit/floppy option and actually mount the floppy (screen 2 shows DEBUG: mounted fd0 succsessfully on /mnt2 or something like that.) but then the "Insert writable fixit floppy" pops up again and I can't get any further. No shell on screen 4. I can still switch to screen 2 (debug info). I can do ctrl-alt-del and abort the thing. But I can't do esc or enter - nothing happens on these keys. I tried the emergency holographic shell, but can't even use ls :-(, so I don't really know how to use it... _Any_ help greatly appreciated (<- that spelling right?!?)!!! I really need this machine! Thanks, Mathias P.S.: Please mail me directly, too, since I only read the digest, and that takes some time to arrive. -- Mathias Picker Consultant Information Architecture Mathias.Picker@virtual-earth.de +49 172 / 89 19 381 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message