Date: Sun, 18 May 2003 18:53:50 -0700 (PDT) From: Bsd Neophyte <bsdneophyte@yahoo.com> To: Joshua Oreman <oremanj@webserver.get-linux.org>, Andy Farkas <andyf@speednet.com.au> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: need help repairing this system... mount issues Message-ID: <20030519015350.96943.qmail@web20109.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20030519012655.GA19365@webserver.get-linux.org>
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--- Joshua Oreman <oremanj@webserver.get-linux.org> wrote: > Before you do that, why not try this? > Booting [kernel] in 9 seconds... [space] > ok boot -s > [snip] > mountroot> ufs:/dev/ad4s1a > [snip] > # mount -uw / > # cd /dev && sh MAKEDEV ad4 > # mount -a > > The key command is 'mount -uw /'. This tells the system to remount / > read-write. It does not need the device file used to mount the > partition. alright tried this, but "mount -uw" gives the following error: WARNING: R/W mount of / denied. Filesystem is not clean - run fsck mount: /dev/ad0s1a: Operation not mermitted so i tried running fsck which gives the following error: Can't open /dev/ad0s1a: Device not configured Can't open /dev/ad0s1e: Device not configured so i thought i'd run fsck on the device nodes located in /mnt (made using the method suggested in a previous message), but then i realized that I don't know exactly how that will help either. here's one thing that confuses me. when i boot and it asks me for the location of the boot slice, i enter /dev/ad4s1a, but the thing is that this doesn't exist in /dev. so how exactly is the system booting through what it should consider a phantom slice? again... and any all help is greatly appreciated. :) __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. http://search.yahoo.com
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