From owner-freebsd-current Fri Apr 4 13:19:47 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA04100 for current-outgoing; Fri, 4 Apr 1997 13:19:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from militzer.me.tuns.ca (militzer.me.tuns.ca [134.190.50.153]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA04089 for ; Fri, 4 Apr 1997 13:19:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (bemfica@localhost) by militzer.me.tuns.ca (8.8.5/8.8.4) with SMTP id RAA00594 for ; Fri, 4 Apr 1997 17:19:15 -0400 (AST) Date: Fri, 4 Apr 1997 17:19:14 -0400 (AST) From: Antonio Bemfica To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: ufs filesystem not available at mount time ... Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hello A week or so back someone posted a message refering to a problem with mount at boot time. The same problem is happening to my -current box after a 'make world' (I didn't have a chance of building a new kernel...): mount: ufs filesystem is not available One proposed solution was to boot with the fixit floppy and copy the mount* files onto a new location on the hard drive, reboot it in single user mode and use the new mount* binaries to get things back in order. How exactly do you accomplish that? When I boot with the floppy I have no access to the hard drive - I have a minimal filesystem up and the floppy is mounted at /mnt2. Should I mount /dev/rsd0a (my "/" ) onto / or onto /mnt, or some such thing? I tried some combinations, but never got access to the fixed drive (mount complains it needs a "block device" or something like that). Any help would be appreciated. Antonio -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "I myself have always disliked being called a 'genius'. It is fascinating to notice how quick people have been to intuit this aversion and avoid using the term" -- John Lanchester, in "The Debt to Pleasure"