buildworld, buildkernel, installkernel, shutdow now, fsck -p -- NO WRITE ACCESS

Polytropon freebsd at edvax.de
Mon Aug 4 23:49:25 UTC 2008


On Mon, 04 Aug 2008 18:37:28 -0400, email <email at guice.ath.cx> wrote:
> I thank you.  In addition, I am quite sure the command we are referred 
> to in "23.4.5 Drop to Single User Mode" is in fact 'shutdown now' and 
> not 'shutdown -r now'.  

While "shutdown now" puts you into SUM at once, not unmounting
anything, "shutdown -r now" reboots the system and it's up to
you to enter SUM via kernel interruption and "boot -s", and in
this state, nothing is mounted.

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Polytropon
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