Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 14:30:39 -0500 From: David Wassman <DWassman@davismonk.com> To: <jason.w.barnes@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: interactive stop on boot Message-ID: <4EFE19E52F4F844D997F24D759C4A23B038755C3@etg2.etg.local>
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Jason, If there isn't anything needed from the NFS mounts, you can add intr,soft options to the /etc/fstab for each NFS share. Intr allows you to interrupt the NFS process with CTRL-C. You may not be available to do this, but you could call a user to do it. Soft allows the NFS client to fail, instead of hang.=20 Or you could just delete the entries or have them noauto. Also, verify that the dump and pass# are set to zero. At least pass#, as if it is any other number, the background fschk will try to run and hang if not available (not ideal to run fschk on NFS mounts anyway) Hope this helps. David Wassman Message: 13 Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 08:24:57 -0700 From: "Jason Barnes" <jason.w.barnes@gmail.com> Subject: interactive stop on boot To: questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <d0672fc40803140824iea2a009u52c1168b4991eb4d@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=3DISO-8859-1 Hi -- I'm running a "Tombstone" machine that's functioning as a server. The machine is located somewhere with a fast connection, and not somewhere that I have easy access to. As such, I want this machine to do its best to boot up and get onto the network, no matter what happens on boot, so that I have a chance to actually fix the problem. Lately when it boots it runs into an NFS mounting error, claiming that some of my NFS-mounted drives have unexpected inconsistencies. It says "unexpected error - help!" and then quits to a /bin/sh single-user-mode prompt. As I am 10 miles away, this is decidedly unhelpful. I don't care if it can't mount some irrelevant drive or not; I want it to boot up and ask me questions later. Is there a way that I can set the machine to do its best to boot no matter what it finds at boot time? Thanks in advance for any help you can provide, - Jason PS -- Boot messages not available, as the machine is down at the moment and I can't get over there to type "<enter> exit<enter>" until later this afternoon.
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