Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 02:41:32 -0500 From: Allen Cleveland <allenc@mindsieve.com> To: R Joseph Wright <rjoseph@nwlink.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: single user mode? Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.20000111024132.007ccca0@mindsieve.com> In-Reply-To: <387ACCF8.D430B322@nwlink.com> References: <3.0.5.32.20000110173243.0081e290@mindsieve.com> <3.0.5.32.20000110233539.00820100@mindsieve.com>
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At 10:26 PM 1/10/00 -0800, R Joseph Wright wrote:
>
>> If by rescue floppies you mean the images I have in the /floppies directory
>> of the cd I burned, then yes. However, after doing so ( and making a fixit
>> floppy ) 'mount' shows information about the floppy, but gives me 'command
>> not found' otherwise ( ie: with args ). Typing '/sbin/mount /dev/da0s1a
>> /mnt' gives me 'mount: command not found' .
>>
>> I could install fresh from the iso I burned, but I'd rather leave that as a
>> last resort. Any other ideas?
>
>Hmmm...I've done this before. I'm sure it was /sbin/mount that worked
>for me. However, you may need to pass an argument such as "/sbin/mount
>-t ufs /dev/da0s1a /mnt".
Booting with floppies (boot -s), then going to the fixit disk:
Fixit# /sbin/mount -t ufs /dev/da0s1a /mnt
/sbin/mount: not found
Fixit# mount -t ufs /dev/da0s1a /mnt
usage: mount [-dfpruvw] [-o options] [-t ufs | external_type] special node
mount [-adfpruvw] [-t ufs | external_type]
mount [-dfpruvw] special | node
This time I'm looking at the screen, and not relying on my memory for the
above. When fixit starts I get a short info screen with the following:
"
You might want to symlink /mnt/etc/*pwd.db and /mnt/etc/group
to /etc after mounting a root filesystem from your disk.
tar(1) will not restore all permissions correctly otherwise!
Note: you might use the arrow keys to browse throught the
command history of this shell.
"
This leads me to two thoughts:
1. mount could work if I had a man page handy (yes, I'm looking for online
man pages now... url, anyone?)
2. I wonder where the command history went (arrows give me bells untill I
have typed in at least one command) ?
--
Allen Cleveland allenc@mindsieve.com
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