Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 23:07:05 -0800 (PST) From: "W. J. Williams" <will@willardjwilliams.com> To: Tom Parquette <bcsfd204@twcny.rr.com>, NOEL BALANSAG <pongkee@yahoo.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how do i invoke the command "ee" or "vi" when system fails to load Message-ID: <20030312070705.27076.qmail@web13509.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <3E6E775B.8070208@twcny.rr.com>
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ironic...I dorked something up last night in my lab and found myself in the same predicament...my mentor had me invoke the mount -a command which brought me out of read only mode so I could run vi to fix my rc.conf...hope this helps... --- Tom Parquette <bcsfd204@twcny.rr.com> wrote: > 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 ===== Will Williams To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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