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Date:      Sat, 15 Jan 2000 15:28:06 -0800
From:      Jon Rust <jpr@vcnet.com>
To:        Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: system boots into sysinstall?!
Message-ID:  <v04210119b4a6b2e4a5a9@[209.239.239.22]>
In-Reply-To: <20000115153153.V508@fw.wintelcom.net>
References:  <v04210116b4a664231f11@[209.239.239.22]> <20000115153153.V508@fw.wintelcom.net>

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Well, shoot. Thanks. Fortunately, it was a fresh install on a 
non-production box. :-/

jon

At 3:31 PM -0800 1/15/00, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
>* 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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