Having problems with fixit floppy mounting filesystems
Tom Parquette
tparquet at twcny.rr.com
Thu May 29 18:30:40 PDT 2003
I was installing an additional hard disk and I believe I commented out
the wrong line in fstab or typo'ed something. The /usr filesystem is
not mounted. The machine will not boot to a command prompt so I can
repair it. It complains bitterly at boot time about not finding things
in the /usr/...... directories.
I have never broken a system this badly before so this is the first time
I have had to use a fixit floppy.
If I can get the root and usr filesystems mounted r/w I should be able
to "ee" fstab and get myself going.
I can get to the fixit command prompt but when I issue mount /dev/ad0s1a
/mnt to get the root filesystem mounted all I get is "operation not
permitted".
I searched the mailing list archives and dug through the on-line
handbook and I'm not finding anything that gives me a clue what I'm
doing wrong.
Any help would be appreciated.
TIA.
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