From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 11 15:55:11 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC8FC37B404 for ; Tue, 11 Mar 2003 15:55:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from ms-smtp-01.nyroc.rr.com (ms-smtp-01.nyroc.rr.com [24.92.226.148]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBEFB43FDD for ; Tue, 11 Mar 2003 15:55:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bcsfd204@twcny.rr.com) Received: from twcny.rr.com (syr-66-24-56-65.twcny.rr.com [66.24.56.65]) by ms-smtp-01.nyroc.rr.com (8.12.5/8.12.2) with ESMTP id h2BNt867027428; Tue, 11 Mar 2003 18:55:08 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3E6E775B.8070208@twcny.rr.com> Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 18:55:07 -0500 From: Tom Parquette User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030218 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: NOEL BALANSAG Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how do i invoke the command "ee" or "vi" when system fails to load References: <20030311231456.24525.qmail@web11603.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20030311231456.24525.qmail@web11603.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG NOEL BALANSAG wrote: >hello. > >pardon my stupid question, but how do i invoke the >command "ee" or "vi"? i recently removed partition no. >2 on my disk, and fbsd resides on partition no. 3, so >now i have 2 partitions, windoze on partition 1 and = >fbsd on partition 2. but when i boot into fbsd, the >system cannot see the files, and drops me into the "#" >prompt. > >how do i invoke "ee" or "vi"? is it ok to just edit >the file "/etc/fstab" and reboot? is there anything >else i need to do? > >thanks in advance. > >pls. cc any response because this email address of >mine is not subscribed, bec. any mail from my other >subscribe addy gets bounced due to a spammer on my >isp. i hate spammers!!! they should be shot! > >__________________________________________________ >Do you Yahoo!? >Yahoo! Web Hosting - establish your business online >http://webhosting.yahoo.com > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > Noel, From your description I'm assuming you are going into single user mode. It sounds like fstab is pointing in the wrong place. If you can figure out where your /usr filesystem is you can issue a mount command to remount it. Once you have /usr mounted, "ee" should work for you. Hope this helps. Cheers... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message