From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 20 11:12: 2 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 20 11:11:57 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail7.sc.rr.com (mail7.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4C1837B400 for ; Wed, 20 Dec 2000 11:11:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from sc.rr.com ([24.88.102.101]) by mail7.sc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.537.53); Wed, 20 Dec 2000 14:10:59 -0500 Received: (from dmaddox@localhost) by sc.rr.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) id eBKJBCl07693; Wed, 20 Dec 2000 14:11:12 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from dmaddox) Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 14:11:12 -0500 From: "Donald J . Maddox" To: Willem van Veelen Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freeBSD startup probs Message-ID: <20001220141112.D7333@cae88-102-101.sc.rr.com> Reply-To: dmaddox@sc.rr.com Mail-Followup-To: Willem van Veelen , questions@freebsd.org References: <5.0.0.25.2.20001220151948.009e84c0@pop3.raketnet.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <5.0.0.25.2.20001220151948.009e84c0@pop3.raketnet.nl>; from willem@melp.nl.com on Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 03:22:50PM +0100 Return-Receipt-To: dmaddox@sc.rr.com Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Can you post the contents of your /etc/fstab? BTW - I am the one who wrote the response below... Why were you unable to reply to me? On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 03:22:50PM +0100, Willem van Veelen wrote: > At 17:40 19-12-00 -0500, you wrote: > > I cannot reply to the person that was helping me before, so I did it this way. > Please help me out > > > It sounds like something is going wrong at boot, dropping you into > > single-user mode. You will have to be a little more specific > > about the 'bla bla bla' part of the output if you want anybody > > to be able to help you figure out what's going wrong, though... > > > Sorry, you're right, I need to be more specific. > Here is the message I get when i boot up: > > -- > Can't check filesystem > Unexpected inconsistency: run fsck manually > Enter full pathname of ehll or RETURN for /bin/sh > -- > > > > When I run fsck the following message is displayed: > > -- > Can't open /dev/ad0s1a: invalid argument > Can't open /dev/ad0s1f: invalid argument > Can't open /dev/ad0s1e: invalid argument > -- > > So, as long I'm stil a newbey - can you explane what this exactly means. > Thanks. > > greetings, > > Willem van Veelen > willem@melp.nl.com > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message