harddisk problem and/or fsck problem?

[Richard Dawes]

On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 11:55:06AM -0800, Kent Stewart wrote:
> On Friday 26 March 2004 10:06 am, Richard Dawes wrote:
> > Greetings, fellow FreeBSD users!
> >
> > Everything so far works fine for me, until I drop into single-
> > user mode to prep for making world.  Even then, it seems OK,
> > except for this alarming output of "fsck -p":
> 
> Well, you missed reading something because you are supposed to boot -s 
> into single user mode. Then, you don't have write access and the fsck 
> works. 
> 
> BTW, the whole point of booting into single user mode is to avoid a bad 
> kernel. When you drop into single user mode, you aren't testing the new 
> kernel.
> 
> Kent

Doh!  Yes, I guess I was reading too quickly.  And of course
it makes sense that I'd not need to fsck and mount things if
I just "drop" into single-user mode.

But I wasn't yet testing a new kernel... I haven't yet made the
buildworld target.  I see later on, though, where I'm supposed
to boot -s  after installing a newly built kernel.

Thanks for your help!

-Rich

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Richard Dawes
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