Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2006 19:14:20 -0700 (PDT) From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Mikko_Ty=F6l=E4j=E4rvi?= <mbsd@pacbell.net> To: Lawrence Horvath <lordsporkton@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: forcing boot Message-ID: <20060604191052.Q99735@spirou.home> In-Reply-To: <1E4DD202-1F40-4C94-9CE5-B5763D172947@u.washington.edu> References: <a1bf75ae0606041440t7a66cf95s6fc194d6a98dc2e8@mail.gmail.com> <1E4DD202-1F40-4C94-9CE5-B5763D172947@u.washington.edu>
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> On Jun 4, 2006, at 2:40 PM, Lawrence Horvath wrote:
>
> 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.
In single user mode /etc/netstart should bring up the network. If you
have data on partitions other than the root, you can manually mount
them read-only.
$.02,
/Mikko
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