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Date:      Sat, 5 Apr 1997 17:46:12 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
To:        bemfica@militzer.me.tuns.ca (Antonio Bemfica)
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ufs filesystem not available at mount time ...
Message-ID:  <199704051546.RAA15025@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.94.970404170738.344A-100000@militzer.me.tuns.ca> from Antonio Bemfica at "Apr 4, 97 05:19:14 pm"

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> Hello
> 
> A week or so back someone posted a message refering to a problem with
> mount at boot time. The same problem is happening to my -current box after
> a 'make world' (I didn't have a chance of building a new kernel...):
> 
> mount: ufs filesystem is not available
> 
> One proposed solution was to boot with the fixit floppy and copy the
> mount* files onto a new location on the hard drive, reboot it in single
> user mode and use the new mount* binaries to get things back in order.
> 
> How exactly do you accomplish that?  When I boot with the floppy I have no
> access to the hard drive - I have a minimal filesystem up and the floppy
> is mounted at /mnt2.  Should I mount /dev/rsd0a (my "/" ) onto / or onto
> /mnt, or some such thing? I tried some combinations, but never got access
> to the fixed drive (mount complains it needs a "block device" or something

And why then don't you use the block device? You tried to use the
character (raw device) instead of the the block device.

Use 

mount /dev/sd0a /mnt

and you will be fine.

> like that). 
> 
> Any help would be appreciated.
> 
> Antonio
> -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> "I myself have always disliked being called a 'genius'.  It is fascinating
>  to notice how quick people have been to intuit this aversion and avoid 
>  using the term"  --  John Lanchester,  in  "The Debt to Pleasure"
> 
> 

--
Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de



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