Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2007 01:53:13 +0000 From: John Murphy <freebsd001@freeode.co.uk> To: Jorn Argelo <jorn@wcborstel.com> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: What's the point of the shell choice in single user mode? Message-ID: <20071203015313.48f35789@asus.freeode.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <4752EFF1.9050107@wcborstel.com> References: <20071201044427.38bd2c84@asus.freeode.co.uk> <20071201061813.2a0e35e2@gumby.homeunix.com.> <20071201140619.4b7332ba@asus.freeode.co.uk> <4752EFF1.9050107@wcborstel.com>
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On Sun, 02 Dec 2007 18:48:33 +0100 Jorn Argelo <jorn@wcborstel.com> wrote: > John Murphy wrote: > > [after pressing 4 at the Beasty menu] > > > > Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ad4s2a > > Enter full path name of shell or RETURN for /bin/sh: > > /bin/tcsh > > sh: Cannot open /etc/termcap > > sh: using dumb terminal settings > > %fsck -p > > fsck: Command not found > > %mount -u / > > mount: Command not found > > %reboot > > reboot: Command not found > > %exit > > logout ... continues to a Login prompt. > > > You simply don't have the commands in your PATH. Type /sbin/mount, > /sbin/fsck, /sbin/reboot and so on, and it does work. Never tried using > an setenv PATH /bin:/sbin:usr/bin:/usr/sbin(etc) in single user mode, > but I reckon it works. Thanks. Useful to know that those tools are all in /sbin I can confirm that setenv PATH .... works too. > Also note that vi doesn't work by default as it needs to write to /tmp. > So mount /tmp or re-mount / to RW permissions. > > Regards, > > Jorn -- Thanks, John.
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