Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 22:49:25 +0000 From: RW <list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD drops to single user mode Message-ID: <200601272249.26518.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> In-Reply-To: <D35F1856C06510BC057B40AA@utd59514.utdallas.edu> References: <D35F1856C06510BC057B40AA@utd59514.utdallas.edu>
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On Friday 27 January 2006 21:36, Paul Schmehl wrote: > Recently I experienced something that surprised me. I have a workstation > with two SATA drives. The second drive is data only and is mounted r/w > when the OS boots. We had a user whose (Windows) computer crashed and they > wanted to know if we could recover the data. > > I said I'd see, and I unplugged the second drive (ad5 on FreeBSD, drive1 on > Windows) and plugged in the suspect drive, fully expecting to mount it and > copy files over. But, when FreeBSD booted, it failed to read ad5 and then > dropped to single user mode. >... > Here's my fstab, if that illuminates anything: > >... > /dev/ad5s1d /files ufs rw 2 2 If you neglected to comment-out this line, FreeBSD would be looking for this partition, which doesn't exist on the Windows drive.
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