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To: Carl Schmidt <carl@slackerbsd.org>
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Carl Schmidt <carl@slackerbsd.org> types:
> On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 02:31:50PM -0500, Mike Meyer wrote:
> > Carl Schmidt <carl@slackerbsd.org> types:
> > > On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 04:58:42PM +0000, Agbenya Adotey wrote:
> > > > on this box.
> > > > I don't know what to do now.
> > > > I would appreciate some help from anyone.
> > > Boot single-user:
> > > 
> > > boot: /kernel -s
> > > [boot messages]
> > > [prompt on shell path - press enter]
> > 
> > You missed a step: "# mount -u /" so you can write to the root
> > partition. An "fsck -p" may be required before that.
> > 
> 
> So I did. Ooops. Shouldn't that be a mount -o rw -u / or something or
> does it grab from fstab or something? *sigh*

It'll grab it from fstab.

	<mike

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