Failed boot after battery fell out of laptop

Hi All

I unplugged the laptop to move it but then when I picked it up the battery fell out causing it to crash.

Now when I boot up it fails and drops me into single user mode.

I get messages that say
Code:
"/home/Jeff: No such file or directory"

If I run
zfs mount -a
in single user mode I can see that the file system is all there.

I do see
Code:
/dev/gpt/efiboot0: FILESYSTEM CLEAN; SKIPPING CHECKS

Any ideas as to what I can do to get this laptop running again?
 
Take a photo of the screen when you are dropped to single user.
 
Ok, here it is

It looks fuzzy in the thumbnail but is readable when you click on it.
 

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Well... You don't have any redundancy in your system pool. You can try a zpool scrub zroot, but it won't resolve the problem just check if there is one. The directory /home/Jeff exists and is accessible?
 
ding ding - we have a winner!

Thanks nxjoeseph! It was the fstab file!

I had recently added a line to make mounting my camera easier

Code:
/dev/da0s1 /home/Jeff/media msdos rw

After I Commented this out the laptop now boots normally.

So this had nothing to do with the battery falling out, it was just the first reboot since I edited fstab.
 
ding ding - we have a winner!

Thanks nxjoeseph! It was the fstab file!

I had recently added a line to make mounting my camera easier


/dev/da0s1 /home/Jeff/media msdos rw


After I Commented this out the laptop now boots normally.

So this had nothing to do with the battery falling out, it was just the first reboot since I edited fstab.
Good new. I was thinking you were root on ufs because zfs is almost proof to sudden power off; ufs isn't.
 
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