From owner-freebsd-current Fri Apr 2 10:21:48 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from wall.polstra.com (rtrwan160.accessone.com [206.213.115.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CEC214CC9 for ; Fri, 2 Apr 1999 10:21:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Received: from vashon.polstra.com (vashon.polstra.com [206.213.73.13]) by wall.polstra.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id KAA00658; Fri, 2 Apr 1999 10:21:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) From: John Polstra Received: (from jdp@localhost) by vashon.polstra.com (8.9.2/8.9.1) id KAA16134; Fri, 2 Apr 1999 10:21:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Date: Fri, 2 Apr 1999 10:21:22 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199904021821.KAA16134@vashon.polstra.com> To: kevin_eliuk@sunshine.net Subject: Re: Restarting after power failure In-Reply-To: Organization: Polstra & Co., Seattle, WA Cc: current@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In article , Kevin G. Eliuk wrote: > > Something that I have never experienced before this point and am not > sure whether to apply the concern to softupdates or the ATA - drivers. > > After a power outage, restarting the computer in single user, running > fsck on all the entries in /etc/fstab, and typing exit it would tell me > that it could not mount "/" and drop me back to the shell choice to run > fsck again. > > WARNING: R/W mount of / denied. Filesystem is not clean - run fsck One possibility: Make sure your /etc/fstab lists the root device including the slice. For example, "/dev/wd0s1a" and _not_ "/dev/wd0a". John -- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Self-interest is the aphrodisiac of belief." -- James V. DeLong To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message