Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 05:25:47 -0400 From: "Thomas Mueller" <mueller23@insightbb.com> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Cc: Alexander Yerenkow <yerenkow@gmail.com> Subject: Re: A little question about safe mode Message-ID: <C0.7D.23131.B1BCF705@smtp02.insight.synacor.com>
next in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
> Hello there. > I have problem here, and don't know if it's bug or "feature" :) > If I prerare boot media (hdd, sd card,usb, etc) with FreeBSD, and NOT > create there fstab, I see such behavior: > 1. I need enter manually where from mount root (e.g. ufs:ada0s1a or > ufs:ada0s1a rw) > 2. If I enter ufs:ada0s1a rw - I have / mounted in read-only anyway. <== Is > this bug?... > 3. If I try to make it rw, with commands > mount -o rw -u /dev/ada0s1a / > there is no errors, but root is still RO. > 4. I can't umount / remount some elsewhere this disk, just to create fstab > (it's already mounted and can't be updated). > So, is this as-by-design, that you need "any other" media to boot, just to > create fstab, or there is "rw" mode broken, or I just missed something? > It's very disappointing to be able boot interactively into system, but have > no way to "fix" fstab to make it non-interactively bootable :) > Thanks. > -- > Regards, > Alexander Yerenkow I think you would need to mount -uw / u being for update. It looks like your post describes single-user mode rather than safe mode. When there is no /etc/fstab or the fstab is unworkable, you are put into single-user mode with a prompt to enter full path to shell or Enter for /bin/sh Maybe you could create your boot media with /etc/fstab pointing to the correct partition? Tom
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?C0.7D.23131.B1BCF705>