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Date:      Tue, 25 Jul 2000 17:09:10 -0700 (PDT)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@pike.osd.bsdi.com>
To:        Sudhindra Bengeri <bengeri@torrentnet.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: booting single usr mode: / was not properly dismounted
Message-ID:  <200007260009.RAA13349@pike.osd.bsdi.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.1000725195840.25244B-100000@castillo.torrentnet.com> from Sudhindra Bengeri at "Jul 25, 2000 07:58:50 pm"

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Sudhindra Bengeri wrote:
> Sorry, I had a typo in my prev posting. I had written 
> 
> "the root-device is not mounted read-only" it should have been 
> "the root-device is now mounted read-only".
> 
> Rgds,
> Sudhin

# fsck /
# mount -u -o rw /

> On Tue, 25 Jul 2000, Sudhindra Bengeri wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > The primary kernel file, /kernel has some problem, I have a backup of this
> > file on the /home filesystem. The other kernel file that I have in the
> > root device fails to boot in the multiuser mode. 
> > 
> > I tried entering the single user mode, by
> > 
> > boot: /kernel.ORIG -s
> > 
> > This boots up but gives the following warning
> > 
> > WARNING: / was not properly dismounted
> > 
> > the root-device is not mounted read-only. Is there any way by which I can
> > dismount this read-only filesystem and mount it as read-write.
> > 
> > Thanks in anticipation.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Sudhin

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