Date: 28 Oct 97 12:53:45 +0100 From: leifn@swimsuit.roskildebc.dk (Leif Neland) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: root_device read-only, and not in dev or fstab Message-ID: <253_9710281329@swimsuit.roskildebc.dk>
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j> Subject: Re: root_device read-only, and not in dev or fstab j> j>> I couldn't mount / rw, appearently because there wasn't a j>> /etc/fstab, and no /dev/sd2s1a. And because of that, I couldn't j>> create /etc/fstab and /dev/sd2s1a! Chicken and egg... j> boot from the boot floppy, j> choose the 'fixit disk' option j> put in the fixit disk j> mount the root part j> fix it I couldn't do this because of two reasons: 1: The system doesn't have a floppydrive, so I boot from DOS. 2: The scsi-disk needs a special kernel, because it doesn't report proper scsi-version (scsi-1 or scsi-2) So I had to put the disk back in a working system. Leif Neland leifn@image.dk --- |Fidonet: Leif Neland 2:234/49 |Internet: leifn@image.dk
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