Date: Fri, 3 May 2002 06:23:59 +0000 (GMT) From: Zach Johnson <n74@74international.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: can't write-mount / to change fstab Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0205030614390.29007-100000@winston.dreamhost.com>
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Hello, My old motherboard fried itself last week. Today I've put in my new and different mobo since they don't make my old one anymore. Problem is with my old mobo I mounted / and /usr and so on NOT as /dev/wd* but instead a different dev. So when I boot BSD it tries to mount things according to fstab but doesn't find things the same, so it dumps me into single user mode. In single user I can SEE fstab in /etc but I can't change it since I'm mounted in read-only. And I can't do a mount -u / since it tells me the current device doesn't match fstab. And I an't do a mount -u /dev/foo / since it tells me that /dev/foo doesn't exist!! But I can't CREATE /dev/foo since / is mounted read-only!!! How the heck am I going to change fstab and create the dev's I need so I can mount the rest of my file system? Any help would be GREATLY appreciated, Zach Johnson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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