On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 00:25, Jeremy Chadwick <free...@jdc.parodius.com> wrote: > Absolutely. I've done it myself many times over the years, including > remotely over serial console. However, you said you did that then typed > "exit" rather than "reboot", and the end result was a kernel panic.
Yes, I should have given it another clean try after changing /etc/fstab. I guess my rustiness with the Good Stuff(tm) plus the unexpected behavior made me panic myself. > Honestly, I'm not surprised; the system was probably still confused > about the root device. I'm guessing some kernel innards (or maybe > something picked up from boot2/loader) still referenced the "unknown > root device" and caused the panic. Could be. The system had just too many possible points of failure at that point (its original kernel refused to boot for a few hours due to the geometry mess, then all of a sudden started working normally, for instance), so I take whatever I learned from that install as experience. I'm glad I thought about the right thing to do, it may have failed for a number of things in the way. > Even on other operating systems, if I'm dropped (unintentionally or > intentionally/by choice) into single-user mode, I reboot the system > rather than exit out of single-user and hope that multi-user works from > that point forward. I've seen "exit" on Solaris fail and cause all > sorts of mayhem (all sorts of system startup services (not rc/init!) > failing, machine ending up in some sort of catatonic state). Good to know, I never really paid much attention to those details (I will from now on). Thank you a lot for the help, Jeremy. I will try your suggestions in the morning and post back to tell what did I find out. Best regards, Fred _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
