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Date:      Sat, 19 Sep 1998 22:50:42 -0000 (GMT)
From:      Francisco Reyes <francisco@natserv.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   What do Boot -s and Fixit do?
Message-ID:  <199809200250.WAA25094@federation.addy.com>

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Had some problems with fstab (a typo <G>). The system would not come up.

I went back and forth between trying to boot -s and booting fixit from the
CD.

The one thing that confused me most was that single user bootup doesn't
have /sbin in the path so when I typed mount it couldn't find the
command. Shouldn't /sbin be on the path for single user bootup?

I was totally confused when trying to use the fixit CD. How can one mount
when booting from fixit? It was looking for fstab, but there is no way to
change it since the CD is read only.

Is there a flag one could send the kernel to prompt before mounting each
volume in fstab?

I never have enough time to read the initial kernel help screen. Is
there anything one can press so it doesn't continue automatically and waits
for input?
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francisco@natserv.com

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