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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!metro!metro!asstdc.scgt.oz.au!nsw.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!vic.news.telstra.net!news.mira.net.au!inquo!in-news.erinet.com!bug.rahul.net!rahul.net!a2i!samba.rahul.net!rahul.net!a2i!sierra.net!imci5!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!newshub.csu.net!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!Germany.EU.net!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: HELP: FreeBSD will not mount the /usr and swap partitions! Date: 27 Apr 1996 09:17:32 GMT Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden Lines: 27 Message-ID: <4lsonc$89n@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4loimn$pi0@ganesh.sdstate.edu> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit hartzeld@cc.sdstate.edu (Dave Hartzell) writes: >It didn't fix the problem. It made things worse. Now when FreeBSD 2.1 >boots, it can't mount the /dev/wd1aXXX partitions! That includes the >swap, proc and /usr stuff, so I can't get any man pages up. > >I can run mount, fdisk, etc, and sh MAKEDEV didn't help again. Does >anyone know what I need to do to fix this??? Would fdisk help? fdisk is certainly the biggest mistake you could do now. You will have to analyze the roots of your problem. Given your above description, this is impossible for us, you only wrote ``My car doesn't work!'' but forgot to add the hairy details. Try to get a real picture about what happens, and see whether you can fix it. It looks like you've still got a working root file system, so you could boot into single-user mode (`-s' at the Boot: prompt), run `fsck -p' (or at least `fsck /dev/rwd0a' or wherever your root f/s resides), and `mount -u /' to get the root f/s mounted read/write. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)