Bad Disk - How do I boot?

[JohnEBarnes]

A disk without the OS has failed. I can get to single user mode but only have read permission. I am thinking I need to remove an entry for the disk in /etc/fstab but do not have write premission. How can I get to multi user?
Thanks for any help.

[Joris Denayer]

In V4, you can do
# mount -u /

In V5, you can do
# mountroot


Good Luck

Joris

[Ivan Ferreira]

In single user, you can run:

bcheckrc

to mount all "mountable" file systems. Or you can use mount -u / as described above. You should mount /usr also to have the vi command.

[JohnEBarnes]

Thanks - mountroot was what I needed.

[Hein van den Heuvel]

Welcome to the HP ITRC forum John.

Be sure to look around a little.

You may want to 'close' this topic.

And check out forum use hints like:
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/helptips.do?#28


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Regards,
Hein.

[JohnEBarnes]

mountroot was the command I needed.