From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 26 23:12:17 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id CE2D6B5 for ; Thu, 26 Feb 2015 23:12:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from deneb.dwf.com (70-90-202-97-Albuquerque.hfc.comcastbusiness.net [70.90.202.97]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8F5C98C6 for ; Thu, 26 Feb 2015 23:12:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from deneb.dwf.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by deneb.dwf.com (8.14.4/8.14.3) with ESMTP id t1QMUsMc030028 for ; Thu, 26 Feb 2015 15:30:55 -0700 Message-Id: <201502262230.t1QMUsMc030028@deneb.dwf.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.7.2 01/07/2005 with nmh-1.3 To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: PC-BSD single user startup with mounts. Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2015 15:30:54 -0700 From: reg@dwf.com X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2015 23:12:17 -0000 It seems I may make a career out of trying to install the nvidia304 driver on my system. I have to date got info from this list that I should be using the copy in ports rather than the copy from nvidia (thanks the ports version actually builds) But installing it is now the problem. I need to boot in single user mode to do the install, but I need file systems mounted to get to /usr/ports. Its not obvious what to do after the single user boot to get ALL the file systems mounted. Clearly mount -a doesn't work (nothing in fstab), so here I am back to the list asking dumb questions. Reg.Clemens clemens@dwf.com