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Date:      Sat, 15 Jan 2000 15:31:53 -0800
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To:        Jon Rust <jpr@vcnet.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: system boots into sysinstall?!
Message-ID:  <20000115153153.V508@fw.wintelcom.net>
In-Reply-To: <v04210116b4a664231f11@[209.239.239.22]>; from jpr@vcnet.com on Sat, Jan 15, 2000 at 09:54:35AM -0800
References:  <v04210116b4a664231f11@[209.239.239.22]>

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* Jon Rust <jpr@vcnet.com> [000115 10:17] wrote:
> After a strange system panic I booted up into single user mode, and 
> ran "fsck -y /". It went through a bunch of inode fixes, then said to 
> reboot and run fsck again. I rebooted, typing boot -s at the prompt. 
> The system now boots into the installation menu everytime. ??? Should 
> I scrap, or is there a way to fix this?

you've lost /sbin/init, get out a fixit floppy or reinstall.

-Alfred


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