Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 15:34:43 +0100 From: Alex Zbyslaw <xfb52@dial.pipex.com> To: Chris Shenton <chris@shenton.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Boot hangs at "/bin/sh?", can't see USB keyboard Message-ID: <44B65A03.8010404@dial.pipex.com> In-Reply-To: <20060712133956.52d14d93.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> References: <86fyh6u73y.fsf@PECTOPAH.shenton.org> <20060712133956.52d14d93.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com>
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Bill Moran wrote: >In response to Chris Shenton <chris@shenton.org>: > > >>If not, any suggestions on how to get it to boot to a point where I >>could fix the /etc/fstab? Only thing I can think of is burn a >>bootable FreeBSD disk, boot from it, then mount the hard drive and fix >>fstab from that. >> >> > >That might be faster ... get a FreeSBIE disk. > > > The FreeBSD installation CD will also do just fine with fixit shell. Any CD from 5.X onwards should mount UFS2 partitions even if you are running some later OS version. Given your USB trouble, a 5.X CD might even be preferred since it has the boot option you want. --Alex
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