From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 28 04:34:07 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id EAA19637 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 28 Oct 1997 04:34:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from mail.netcetera.dk (root@sleipner.netcetera.dk [194.192.97.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id EAA19632 for ; Tue, 28 Oct 1997 04:34:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from leifn@swimsuit.roskildebc.dk) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by mail.netcetera.dk (8.8.7/8.8.7) with UUCP id NAA30198 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 28 Oct 1997 13:30:34 +0100 Received: by swimsuit.roskildebc.dk (0.99.970109) id AA07001; 28 Oct 97 13:29:16 +0100 From: leifn@swimsuit.roskildebc.dk (Leif Neland) Date: 28 Oct 97 12:53:45 +0100 Subject: Re: root_device read-only, and not in dev or fstab Message-ID: <253_9710281329@swimsuit.roskildebc.dk> Organization: Fidonet: UNIX-sysadm søger job To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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