On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 01:13:31AM +0900, Morio Miki wrote:
> Hi,I am BSD newbies and I installed NetBSD/i386 but I notice something
> is wrong.
> I cannot use essential commands like man,less.
> 
> I have two harddisks,hd0(80GB) and hd1(40GB).
> I installed WindowsXP,Fedora Linux in hd0.
> I installed FreeBSD in hd1.
> I multiboot them with GRUB,and I have no problems about them,
> 
> and this time,I tried to install NetBSD/i386 in hd1.
> 
> like this
> 
> start(MB) size(MB)
> a: 0 12284 active FreeBSD
> b: 12284 5145 NetBSD/i386
> 
> in details
> 
> start(MB) end(MB) size(MB) FStype
> a: 0 255 255 FFSv1 / FreeBSD
> b: 256 1253 998 swap FreeBSD
> c: 12284 17428 5145 NetBSDpartition
> d: 0 38165 38165 Wholedisk
> e: 1510 1765 256 FFSv1 /tmp FreeBSD
> f: 1766 12283 10517 FFSv1 /usr FreeBSD
> g: 12284 13339 1056 FFSv1 / NetBSD
> h: 13340 13852 512 swap NetBSD
> i: 13853 17428 3576 FFSv1 /usr NetBSD
> j: 18361 18425 64 FFSv1 /tmp NetBSD
> 
> At the first boot, following errors occured,and cannnot boot NetBSD.
> 
> init: can't exec getty '/usr/libexec/getty' for port /dev/ttyE3 Exec
> format error
> init: can't exec getty '/usr/libexec/getty' for port /dev/console Exec
> format error
> 
> At the second boot,I tried to turn in single user mode like this.
> 
> boot netbsd -s
> 
> And I can boot netbsd.
> 
> I tried to know what's going on,I continue
> 
> ls /usr
> 
> /usr is empty.
> man and less must be in /usr/bin. so I understand why I cannnot use
> these commands.
> /bin and /sbin and /etc are OK.
> 
> I tried to mount NetBSD install CD and extract base.tgz.
> but I couldn't because root filesystem is Read-only filesystem.
> 
> At the third boot, NetBSD boot automatically in single user mode.
> It says
> 
> THE FOLLOWING FILE SYSTEM HAD UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY
> ffs:/dev/rw1f (/usr)
> init: /bin/sh on /etc/rc terminated abnormally going to single usermode
> Enter pathname of shell or RETURN for /bin/sh
> 
> I think /usr partition is broken.I still would like to install NetBSD
> and enjoy it.

Well, it looks like something is seriously broken on this system. Are you sure
this drive is OK ? /usr shouldn't corrupt this way.

-- 
Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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