A special shell will be launched by this option with a fixit Floppy (or CD in later revisions of this utility) mounted as /mnt2. This gives one extra commands in /mnt2 as well as a more complete set of device files in /mnt2/dev. Some device operations, like fsck and disklabel, may therefore require you to go to /mnt2/dev and use the entries there rather than assuming that they will be present in the default /dev (which came from the boot medium and is very minimal). When you're done, exit the shell to reboot.