From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 25 17: 9:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pike.osd.bsdi.com (pike.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8253837BC42 for ; Tue, 25 Jul 2000 17:09:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@pike.osd.bsdi.com) Received: (from jhb@localhost) by pike.osd.bsdi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA13349; Tue, 25 Jul 2000 17:09:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb) From: John Baldwin Message-Id: <200007260009.RAA13349@pike.osd.bsdi.com> Subject: Re: booting single usr mode: / was not properly dismounted In-Reply-To: from Sudhindra Bengeri at "Jul 25, 2000 07:58:50 pm" To: Sudhindra Bengeri Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 17:09:10 -0700 (PDT) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL68 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Sudhindra Bengeri wrote: > Sorry, I had a typo in my prev posting. I had written > > "the root-device is not mounted read-only" it should have been > "the root-device is now mounted read-only". > > Rgds, > Sudhin # fsck / # mount -u -o rw / > On Tue, 25 Jul 2000, Sudhindra Bengeri wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > The primary kernel file, /kernel has some problem, I have a backup of this > > file on the /home filesystem. The other kernel file that I have in the > > root device fails to boot in the multiuser mode. > > > > I tried entering the single user mode, by > > > > boot: /kernel.ORIG -s > > > > This boots up but gives the following warning > > > > WARNING: / was not properly dismounted > > > > the root-device is not mounted read-only. Is there any way by which I can > > dismount this read-only filesystem and mount it as read-write. > > > > Thanks in anticipation. > > > > Regards, > > Sudhin -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message