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Old 24th July 2011
Quaxo Quaxo is offline
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I have manage to boot the server now.

What I did was first trying to set the drive in read-only mode by changeing the line in fstab (the drive is FFS according to fstab):
Code:
/dev/wd1i /backup ffs rw,nodev,nosuid 1 2
to:
Code:
/dev/wd1i /backup ffs ro,nodev,nosuid 1 2
but that still halted my boot sequence with the same message as in the first post, so I just commented away the entire line like:
Code:
#/dev/wd1i /backup ffs ro,nodev,nosuid 1 2
and now the server boots up completely.

I commented away the entire line instead of adding the word "force" to it, as you suggested. I didn't find this particular setting in the manual for fstab so I just commented the entire line instead.

The major part of the problem still exists though, my drive is damaged.

Now the drive (the directory rather) is present in the root directory list ("ls /") but the directory is empty. I'm surprised that the directory showed up at all when the line is commented in fstab.

So, as you mentioned I could now mount the drive as read-only. I tried
Code:
mount -f ffs -f -r /dev/wd1i /backup
but that didnt work. The computer halts when i do "ls /backup", so i'm stuck at this point.
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