You are doing things slightly wrong...
On 2025-05-25 12:17, Develop With Dan wrote:
>
> Ok. Thank you, David for getting me going in the right direction
>
> For a noob like me, it required
> 1. Boot into BSD 2.11
> 2. fsck -p did nothing for me, I just get
> # fsck -p
> /dev/ra0a: BLK(S) MISSING (SALVAGED)
> /dev/ra0a: 581 files, 2778 used, 5038 free
That means your root partition had some corruption. At this point, you
need to reboot without a sync, since modifications to the root file
syste, while it is mounted, are only done on disk, and not in memory, so
if you sync, the previously bad data will be written back again.
reboot -n
will do that.
> 3. fsck does something. I have to manually create the scratch file
> every time. You mention something about the mailing list. I don'tknow
> what that is.
Yes, for larger file systems (not the root file system), fsck will need
a temporary file, since it don't have enough memory to manage it all.
> 4. After about 5 minutes, I get a prompt and I can
> mount /usr
> mount /home
> 5. CD in and run
> cd /usr/games
> ./zork
>
> Does this seem about right or am I going through this in a roundabout way?
You are still in single user mode at this point, and while you can of
course do that, there are a bunch of things that you should let the
system do, such as getting various daemons running, the network set up,
and so on.
So what you should do is hit ^D once fsck is complete, and it will do
all those things, and then you will get a login: prompt.
I usually really recommend people to change the system to by default go
to multi-user mode, because then all of these steps are taken care of
automatically, and you don't really have to deal with any of this.
> I appreciate you all sticking with me. I'm obviously a complete noob at
> this.
Everyone have to learn some way. It's just a bit unfortunate that the
system image you use don't have this set up in an automated way.
And I don't know what documentation, if any, you've seen/read.
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