From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 7 13:24:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sherline.net (sherline.net [216.120.87.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A501137B719 for ; Wed, 7 Mar 2001 13:24:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jgowdy@home.com) Received: (qmail 71016 invoked from network); 7 Mar 2001 21:22:54 -0000 Received: from server.sherline.net (HELO server2) (216.120.87.3) by sherline.net with SMTP; 7 Mar 2001 21:22:54 -0000 Message-ID: <002f01c0a74c$c5cbe140$035778d8@sherline.net> From: "Jeremiah Gowdy" To: "Peter Brezny" , References: Subject: Re: motd wrong, won't boot Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 13:22:54 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I accidentally merged the new motd with mergemaster after a complete > rebuild of a system to -stable and now, it won't boot. > > How can i get back to the file system to restore the original motd (i > backed it up). > > i'm in a fixit shell from the cd but don't know how to mount the > filesystems on the hard drive. Um, I'm confused. What exactly does motd (message of the day), have to do with booting ? The motd isn't read until someone logs in, and even if the motd file is fubar or deleted or whatever, that doesn't keep you from logging in. And what would mergemaster do to motd anyway ? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message