Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 14:44:00 +0100 From: Alban Hertroys <haramrae@gmail.com> To: Kurt Jaeger <lists@opsec.eu> Cc: freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: 10.1RC1 armv6 RPI-B stuck in single user mode Message-ID: <CAF-3MvPK-VM8K7CiOZppqhyeZfy4HMxXHf2GF8J%2BpNAiAARjrw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20141029130906.GI66862@home.opsec.eu> References: <CAF-3MvMTXphsXpuQqGnwtHM_3WXSeJCWJfUNttxphuYXFmKeBA@mail.gmail.com> <20141029130906.GI66862@home.opsec.eu>
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On 29 October 2014 14:09, Kurt Jaeger <lists@opsec.eu> wrote: > Hi! > >> We have a Raspberry Pi here that was working fine, but because my >> colleagues tend to reboot the thing by unplugging the power, the root >> file-system got dirty. >> To fsck the root file-system, I attempted to boot it into single-user >> mode using nextboot -o "-s" -k kernel. >> >> Unfortunately, it never shows the single user mode prompt. The system >> gets stuck trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/mmcsd0s2a >> >> And it does that every time I attempt to boot it, because that >> nextboot flag never gets cleared! >> There doesn't appear to be any method of interrupting the boot loader >> on the Pi either. >> >> How do I get out of this pickle? > > Put the SD card into some other device, e.g. some laptop with FreeBSD, > run the fsck there ? I was afraid that would be the answer; card readers are a bit hard to find here at the office. For example; to create the current SD card I had to "borrow" a laptop that someone had brought in to our helpdesk. Obviously, I'll need an SD cardreader at some point anyway, but I was hoping for a quick workaround. -- If you can't see the forest for the trees, Cut the trees and you'll see there is no forest.
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