From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 5 2: 2:22 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.nwlink.com (smtp.nwlink.com [209.20.130.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2197837B9C6 for ; Sun, 5 Mar 2000 02:02:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rjoseph@nwlink.com) Received: from ip142.r3.d.bel.nwlink.com (ip142.r3.d.bel.nwlink.com [207.202.172.142]) by smtp.nwlink.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id CAA03596; Sun, 5 Mar 2000 02:02:15 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2000 01:56:51 -0800 (PST) From: R Joseph Wright X-Sender: rjoseph@mammalia.sea To: Arun Sharma Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fixit/disaster recovery documentation ? In-Reply-To: <20000304234607.A10778@sharmas.dhs.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 4 Mar 2000, Arun Sharma wrote: > Can someone point me to the documentation on recovering from a fubar'ed, > unbootable root filesystem ? I couldn't find it anywhere in the handbook. Here's how you do it: First, you must get out your fixit floppy. If you don't have one, make one from the installation cdrom. Then, boot with your installation cdrom or floppy. When you get to the sysinstall menu, choose "repair mode". At this point you will put in the fixit floppy. Then do Alt-F4 to get to the repair shell where you can mount your root filesystem and fix stuff to your heart's content. Good Luck! Joseph To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message