From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Feb 16 12:33:58 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from barnes1.wustl.edu (barnes1.wustl.edu [128.252.162.58]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 942B6117FD for ; Tue, 16 Feb 1999 12:33:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wayne@barnes1.wustl.edu) Received: (from wayne@localhost) by barnes1.wustl.edu (8.9.2/8.7.3) id OAA01692; Tue, 16 Feb 1999 14:20:50 -0600 (CST) From: "Wayne M. Barnes" Message-Id: <199902162020.OAA01692@barnes1.wustl.edu> Subject: 3.1-R To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org (stable mailing list at FreeBSD) Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 14:20:50 -0600 (CST) Cc: lethvian@maine.rr.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dear Daniel, This sounds a little like a problem I had. To quote from my previous missive: ------------------------- Here's how I got out of this jam: # mount /dev/wd0s1 /usr # Now the / is writable as /usr # cd /usr/dev # This is really /dev # ./MAKEDEV wd0s1a chgrp: not found # Is this going to hurt me someday? # ls wd0* # all the slices a-g are there! # reboot ----------------- If I am right, You would substitute wd1s2 for wd0s1 above, after inspecting the output from mount and cat /etc/fstab , which you should still be able to read from the single-user prompt with / mounted as read-only. -- Wayne M. Barnes wayne@barnes1.wustl.edu -----------Dan's previous letter: Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 13:55:41 -0800 From: "Daniel J. Frost" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.06 [en] (Win98; I) To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: 3.1-R Fixit Flp Hello While upgrading from 2.2.8-stable to 3.1-stable (make aout-to-elf-build and make aout-to-elf-install), all went well until I rebooted. It was apparent that I should have used the GENERIC kernel as opposed to my custom made kernel back in 2.2.8-stable. While booting up, here are the last few lines: /dev/rw1s2:FILESYSTEM CLEAN; Skipping checks /dev/rw1s2: clean, 642327 free (3311 frags, 79877 blocks, 0.3% fragmentation) mount: exec mount_ failed, startup aborted I was able to drop to a shell, but my /usr was on a partition not mounted so I couldn't build a 3.1 kernel. So I tried to mount /usr manually #mount -t ufs /dev/usr_partition /usr pid 25 (mount), uid 0 : exited on signal 12 mount: /usr : Bad system call I tried to boot in single user mode, but I still couldn't use mount. I couldn't use mount in the sense that I couldn't mount anything...I kept getting signal 12 One alternative suggested was to use a fixit.flp, but I still couldn't mount anything even in a Fixit shell. (I got the fixit shell from ftp.freebsd.org, used fdimage to write the image). Fixit# mount -t ufs /dev/root_device /mnt /* /mnt is empty, /mnt2 was where fd0 was mounted) */ /: write failed, filesystem is full mount: /mnt: Bad system call Fixit# this is part of the df output: root_device 95% /dev/fd0 103% I hope I have provided enough information for someone to give me some hints. Thanks. -----------------End of Dan's letter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message