Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2002 23:11:59 -0500 From: "DaleCo, S.P.---'the solutions people'" <daleco@daleco.biz> To: "Tony M." <zigner@earthlink.net>, <FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Goofed on installing 2nd hard drive Message-ID: <004001c27338$a6f2ad80$fa00a8c0@DaleCoportable> References: <3DAA3C93.476AD63@earthlink.net>
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Hi, Tony... Your box has booted in "single user" mode. The only filesystem that is mounted is likely / Your environment variables are not set, so you can't call things normally...you have no path. Try calling /bin/ed /etc/fstab in order to invoke the 'ed' editor on the fstab file, or find another editory in /bin or /sbin. "ee", or other editors, are probably on /usr and can't be accessed. What you need to do to recover from the "unexpected inconsistency" is to run "fsck", probably with the -p option. I forget if it's in /bin or /sbin, and my bandwidth right now is being used almost totally so I can't shell in to check manpages or do a "whereis." Try some of this, I'll check back on you later to see what's up. Kevin Kinsey, a (somewhat-recent) newbie.... DaleCo, S.P. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tony M." <zigner@earthlink.net> To: <FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Sunday, October 13, 2002 10:40 PM Subject: Goofed on installing 2nd hard drive > To start - I am a total newbie to FreeBSD. > I'm using version 4.7 > > I installed a 2nd hard drive using the sysinstall, as directed by the FreeBSD > Handbook. I then added a line to the /etc/fstab, again as directed. > I apparently messed up when I added that line. Now, upon booting, I am told "THE > FOLLOWING FILE SYSTEM HAD AN UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY /dev/ad1s1e (/mnt)" > > After that, I hit enter to load the shell from /bin/sh. At that point, I don't even > get a log-on prompt. I can ls the directories and move around to some extent, but I > can't figure out how to edit /etc/fstab to remove the line that I shouldn't have put > in. > > Any help would be appreciated. > > Thanks, > > Tony > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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