From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 23 12:17:04 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA11171 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 23 Nov 1998 12:17:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from java.dpcsys.com (java.dpcsys.com [206.16.184.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA11166 for ; Mon, 23 Nov 1998 12:17:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@dpcsys.com) Received: from localhost (dan@localhost) by java.dpcsys.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with SMTP id MAA15201; Mon, 23 Nov 1998 12:17:28 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 12:17:28 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Busarow To: alexander smishlajev cc: pf20360@email.csun.edu, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I've confused FreeBSD! In-Reply-To: <3659BC40.18AD7C92@turnhere.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from QUOTED-PRINTABLE to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id MAA11167 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 23 Nov 1998, alexander smishlajev wrote: > Peter Fogg wrote: > > When I start the computer from the second drive and at the "boot:" > > prompt enter > > "1:wd(2,a)kernel", FreeBSD does the usual hardware probe and then > > it is useful to write this line to /boot.config, also. > > > displays the > > following: > > > > Changing root devise to wd2a > > Swapon: /dev/wd0s1b: Invalid argument > > Auto reboot in progress . . . > > Can’t open /dev/rwd0a: Invalid argument > > /dev/rwd0a: CAN’T CHECK FILE SYSTEM. > > /dev/rwd0a: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fdisk MANUALLY > > Automatic file system check failed . . . Help! > > Enter pathname of shell or RETURN for sh: > > press return to enter emergency shell and edit the /etc/fstab file. First he'll need to mount / rw and also mount /usr if it's a saparate filesystem. # mount -u /dev/rwd2a / # fsck /dev/rwd2s1e # mount /dev/rwd2s1e /usr Just guessing on the slices for /usr, might be wd2s1f too, depends on how you set it up. Dan -- Dan Busarow 949 443 4172 Dana Point Communications, Inc. dan@dpcsys.com Dana Point, California 83 09 EF 59 E0 11 89 B4 8D 09 DB FD E1 DD 0C 82 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message