On Thu, 6 Nov 1997, karen wrote:

> hey,
> 
> then it drops me into the shell.  i tried:
> 
> # mount -uw /    and it replied:
> ufs:/dev/sd2a on /: specified device does not match mounted device
> 
> # mount -u /dev/sd1a /   and it replied:
> /dev/sd1a: file system not clean; please fsck(8)
> 
> # fsck  and it replied:
> Can't Open /dev/rsd2a: Device not configured
> 
> AHHHH  im goin nutz here.  if i havent completly lost you please help me
> out.   Thanx,

OK, we've etermined that your root partition is sd1a and that /etc/fstab
incrrectly contains something else.  This means that you need to be very
explicit on any command that uses fstab for its defaults, including fsck.
So, _before_ you `mount -u /dev/sd1a /' to work, you need to use the
command `fsck /dev/rsd1a' to tell it what partition to check.

Otherwise, by default fsck is going to read the /etc/fstab file and try to
check /dev/rsd2a.


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