/dev/root

[Gerhard Roets]

Hi Darren

Can you please post the output of "dmesg"

Thanks
Gerhard

[F Verschuren]

Looks like ether /usr is not mounted ore it is corupted. If it is corupted you can boot from the recoverCD So you can restore the missing programs. if it is not mounted:

mount /dev/vg00/lvol6 /usr

if it is not mounted first do a fsck

[Kent Ostby]

The /dev/root issue occurs after you have booted once in -lm mode (most common cause).

The fix is very simple:

rm /etc/mnttab
mount -a

Now do bdf and it should look fine and will not re-occur after reboot.

Best regards,

Kent M. Ostby

[Kent Ostby]

Okay .. with regards to the boot issue.

Boot to single user mode and type :

mount /usr

This may ask you to fsck the lvol.

So do that then redo the mount

Then do :

ll /dev/root

it should look like:

brw-r----- 1 bin sys 255 0xffffff Feb 23 1999 /dev/root

NOTE: The date may be different

Best regards,

Kent