On Thu, 21 Aug 1997, Jonathan Stone wrote:

> Terry R. Friedrichsen" writes:
> >3)  part of the reason I got started building userland is that
> >I need to build fsck_ffs so I can figure out why "fsck -p"
> >fails.  all it does is give a "usage:" message; this causes
> >the rc script to blow up at boot time and leaves me in single-
> >user mode.
> 
> That sounds very odd.  how old are your fsck and fsck_ffs?  
> Does your /etc/fstab still have "ufs" rather than "ffs" entries?

I've seen it before on mac68k. The problem is that fsck -p comes up
wanting a file system; it won't automatically take /. The "ufs" vs "ffs"
entries might be part of the problem.

Take care,

Bill