From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 5 12:39:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from 2711.dynacom.net (2711.dynacom.net [206.107.213.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F44537B66C for ; Thu, 5 Oct 2000 12:39:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from urx.com (dsl1-160.dynacom.net [206.159.132.160]) by 2711.dynacom.net (Build 101 8.9.3/NT-8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA03835; Thu, 05 Oct 2000 12:39:27 -0700 Message-ID: <39DCD8EF.697FDD9B@urx.com> Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2000 12:39:27 -0700 From: Kent Stewart Reply-To: kstewart@urx.com Organization: Dynacom X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?V=E9ronique?= Huck Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to fix fstab ? References: <39DCD52C.7F71E519@free.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Véronique Huck wrote: > > Hi, > > After mounting a second hard drive in my box, I have added a wrong entry > in > /etc/fstab/ and my system (FBS 4.0) doesn't boot any longer. > The boot sequence stops with : > .. > ... > (checking and mounting /dev/ad0s.. works fine) > ... > /dev/da0 : the following file system had an unexpected inconsistency > :/dev/da0 (usr/home/backup) > Automatic file system check failed...help ! > Enter full pathname of shell or return for /bin/sh > > I tried to overwrite fstab with fstab(tilde) but here is the > following answer : read-only file system > Is there a way to recover the original file before starting a brand new > installation ? :-( You should be able to "mount /" and then edit your /etc/fstab. Kent > > Many thanks > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://kstewart.urx.com/kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message