From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 4 21:40:15 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B29E116B2FD for ; Sun, 4 Jun 2006 21:40:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lordsporkton@gmail.com) Received: from nz-out-0102.google.com (nz-out-0102.google.com [64.233.162.195]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D38C43D55 for ; Sun, 4 Jun 2006 21:40:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lordsporkton@gmail.com) Received: by nz-out-0102.google.com with SMTP id 13so866985nzn for ; Sun, 04 Jun 2006 14:40:04 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=SrgstQydyZTZBpRYPo5J92mPtlIOJb2N49xEiqjT07rQpcvxofUpwiPjBXz5ZCZdsfFFcz9TaV5KiXb3y9j5GKeccSahA0qLsBkURKt4d8H5IOuF8/BUTQNOqU2lAgjR6jqDKrS1Wob2/qP0oRnUqxDXuzaUNqx3qGmHKPbIeNk= Received: by 10.65.215.12 with SMTP id s12mr2998022qbq; Sun, 04 Jun 2006 14:40:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.65.11.9 with HTTP; Sun, 4 Jun 2006 14:40:03 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2006 14:40:03 -0700 From: "Lawrence Horvath" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Subject: forcing boot X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 04 Jun 2006 21:40:21 -0000 How can i force normal boot up even if the filesystem was uncleanly dismounted, i have a box that it looks like the HD is failing, but i still need some of the info off it, so i would like to get it to boot normally anyway so i can sftp/scp the files off it then i can replace the HD, but it refuses boot anything but single user mode. Thanks -- -Lawrence