power failure

[Darren Pilgrim]

steve ellis wrote:
> sorry to bother you. i'm using 5.3
> 
> had a power failure. /temp, /usr, and /var not properly dismounted.
> 
> at one time, i used a disk check utility under 3.x and 4.x, but it's been so 
> long, i've forgotten how to use it, and clean these up. the system reboots 
> to give me the option
> to run under /bin/sh.

The restart is automatic, unless you booted single-user.  For single-user:

# fsck -p
# mount -u /
# mount -at ufs
# swapon -a
# adjkerntz -i