From owner-freebsd-current Sat Apr 5 07:31:55 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id HAA12787 for current-outgoing; Sat, 5 Apr 1997 07:31:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from Campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.116.240]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id HAA12782 for ; Sat, 5 Apr 1997 07:31:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de [137.226.31.2]) by Campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (RBI-Z-5/8.6.12) with ESMTP id RAA02071; Sat, 5 Apr 1997 17:32:05 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from kuku@localhost) by gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (8.8.5/8.6.9) id RAA15025; Sat, 5 Apr 1997 17:46:12 +0200 (MET DST) From: Christoph Kukulies Message-Id: <199704051546.RAA15025@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> Subject: Re: ufs filesystem not available at mount time ... In-Reply-To: from Antonio Bemfica at "Apr 4, 97 05:19:14 pm" To: bemfica@militzer.me.tuns.ca (Antonio Bemfica) Date: Sat, 5 Apr 1997 17:46:12 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Reply-To: Christoph Kukulies X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 And why then don't you use the block device? You tried to use the character (raw device) instead of the the block device. Use mount /dev/sd0a /mnt and you will be fine. > 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" > > -- Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de