On Wed, 9 Jul 1997, Bill Studenmund wrote:

> > 
> > Hello all.
> > 
> > Whenever I boot into NetBSD, it works fine until it says "starting file 
> > system checks" then brings up this error: "Usage: fsck [ something ] [ 
> > something else] filesystem". Then it says "Unknown error; help!" and 
> > drops me into single-user mode. I run "fsck" on the disk, then type 
> > "exit" to get into multi-user. Everything works after this point, but I 
> > have to do this every time I boot.
> > 
> > I'm running the GENERIC-32 kernel with the latest snapshot of everything 
> > else.
> 
> I used to see something like that. We need the FULL error message.
> 
> Make sure that your partitions in /etc/fstab are right; some versions
> of the installer get it wrong for some reason. Also, if the fsck
> command is just "fsck -p", just change it to "fsck -p /". Though I thought
> that error got fixed before June. :-(

I can assure you that the June "current" snapshot had only "fsck -p" - no
"/" to be found.  Are you saying that it needs at least the root mount
point as an argument before it will read any others from /etc/fstab?
Perhaps I'm confused.

Steve