From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 14 17:24:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA25381 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 14 Oct 1998 17:24:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from shemp.palomine.net (shemp.palomine.net [205.198.88.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id RAA25365 for ; Wed, 14 Oct 1998 17:24:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjohnson@palomine.net) Received: (qmail 17958 invoked by uid 1000); 15 Oct 1998 00:23:56 -0000 Message-ID: <19981014202356.A17950@palomine.net> Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1998 20:23:56 -0400 From: Chris Johnson To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, beaupran@jsp.umontreal.ca Subject: Re: Splashed root: almost there! References: <199810140034.RAA02123@hub.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <199810140034.RAA02123@hub.freebsd.org>; from questions-digest on Tue, Oct 13, 1998 at 05:34:40PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Hi! > > I recently made the mistake of busting (newfs-ing) my root partition. I've > been able to build the binaries necessaries to run the system, and /usr > was not damaged. But now, for some obscure reason, the sysinstall program > rnus on startup... THis is weird, I've rebuilded the kernel, and I can't > do anything more than run the fixit floppy. > > Anything I can do??? I once had the same problem with an installation of Redhat Linux. I'd install, reboot, and be presented with the installation program again, for reasons unkown. I repeated the entire installation a couple of times with the same result. Finally, when I had pulled all but three hairs from my head, I realized that this computer had one of those newfangled BIOSes that allowed the computer to boot from the CD. Since I had left the Redhat CD in the drive, that's just what it did. D'oh! This probably isn't your problem, but I point it out just in case. Chris To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message