From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 7 13:29:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hawk-systems.com (hawk-systems.com [161.58.152.235]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9337D37B71A for ; Wed, 7 Mar 2001 13:29:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dave@hawk-systems.com) Received: from server0 (cr1032856-a.pr1.on.wave.home.com [24.112.146.66]) by hawk-systems.com (8.8.8) id OAA33858 for ; Wed, 7 Mar 2001 14:29:10 -0700 (MST) From: "Dave VanAuken" To: Subject: RE: motd wrong, won't boot Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 16:38:30 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <002f01c0a74c$c5cbe140$035778d8@sherline.net> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG my guess would be if he accidently merged the crap out of his customized motd, then he merged the crap out of more than just that... start looking there. The motd is just the most visible result. motd is just a text file that is displayed, no? (always just deleted it myself) Dave -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Jeremiah Gowdy Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2001 4:23 PM To: Peter Brezny; freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: motd wrong, won't boot > I accidentally merged the new motd with mergemaster after a complete > rebuild of a system to -stable and now, it won't boot. > > How can i get back to the file system to restore the original motd (i > backed it up). > > i'm in a fixit shell from the cd but don't know how to mount the > filesystems on the hard drive. Um, I'm confused. What exactly does motd (message of the day), have to do with booting ? The motd isn't read until someone logs in, and even if the motd file is fubar or deleted or whatever, that doesn't keep you from logging in. And what would mergemaster do to motd anyway ? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message