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Date:      Fri, 7 Aug 2009 12:18:41 -0400
From:      Identry <jalmberg@identry.com>
To:        =?ISO-2022-JP?B?T2RoaWFtYm8gGyRCJW8lNyVzJUglcxsoQg==?= <odhiambo@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Boot failure
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> fsck is run when all file systems are unmounted!
>
> If you can, choose single use mode, press enter when it says something like
> "/bin/sh" (I don't remember the wordings) and then on the subsequent
> prompt,,
> # fsck -y [Press enter here]
>
> That is all you need. Once it completes, it will bring back the prompt (the
> hash prompt). If there are no major problems detected, you can simply go
> ahead and type "exit" at the prompt and press enter and see what happens.

But it doesn't boot into single user mode, so I can't just do fsck -y.
And I'm wondering if -y is too dangerous.

-- John



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