Michael G. Schabert wrote:
> 
> Hi again, Bill,
> 
> I just tried cpin'ing the base & "tar -xvf base ./sbin/*" to re-do the
> entire /sbin directory. During the extraction, it spit out that it
> couldn't extract the link from swapon to swapctl because the file
> existed. I renamed the file & manually created the link, hoping that we

Take a look at the FAQ.  There is a pretty good description of how to
install/reinstall archives, including how to avoid the above problems.

> had just switched something with that. Unfortunately, I still dump out.
> Here's what I see from swapctl:
> 
> 
> <paraindent><param>right,left</param>swapctl: adding /dev/sd0b as swap
> device at priority 0
> 
> automatic boot in progress: starting file system checks.
> 
> Usage: fsck [-dfnpy] [-b block] [-c level] [-m mode] filesystem ...
> 
> path to shell or <<return> for sh:

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sorry about that....anyway, it looks like you still need to upgrade you
/etc scripts as well.  I believe the problem is a result of a bug in fsck
which was just mentioned on current-users.  If your /etc/fstab lists
NetBSD partitions as type 'ufs', then fsck barfs on it.  You need to
change the types to 'ffs' and see if that helps.

> It seems that the boot script is screwing up how to call fsck, which is
> dumping out. What file is it taking its cues from at that point?

This is happening in the very early stages of /etc/rc.  If multi-user boot
ever dumps you out like this, you can do the fsck by hand, then exit from
single-user and it should go ahead and boot multi-user.

I hope this helps.

Later.

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Colin Wood                                 cwood@ichips.intel.com
Component Design Engineer - MD6                 Intel Corporation
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