Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 11:14:07 -0700 From: Mark Woodson <mwoodson@sricrm.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Changed a filesystem's name -- now system hangs on reboot (help) Message-ID: <200307101114.10114.mwoodson@sricrm.com> In-Reply-To: <20030710170111.GE3656@webserver.get-linux.org> References: <39020-2200374103946796@M2W035.mail2web.com> <3F0D112F.9010804@mac.com> <20030710170111.GE3656@webserver.get-linux.org>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 10 July 2003 10:01 am, Joshua Oreman wrote: > On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 03:09:35AM -0400 or thereabouts, Chuck Swiger wrote: > > greg@exchange.janemobley.com wrote: > > [ ... ] > > > > >I've looked through the handbook and tried (unsuccessfully) to reboot > > > into single-user mode or otherwise get to a place where I can either > > > comment out the line in fstab or skip the check -- no luck. > > > > > >Any ideas much appreciated. > > > > This is when you boot single-user mode off of the install CD, or the > > FIXIT CD (#2) if you have that around. Then mount your hard drive's root > > partition on /mnt (or make something in /tmp), and fix the problem. > > Completely unnecessary. > > Here's what you do: > Booting [/kernel] in 9 seconds ... <press Space> > OK boot -s > ... > Enter shell or RETURN for /bin/sh: <press Enter> > # mount -uw / > # mount /usr > # my_favorite_editor /etc/fstab > # umount /usr > # exit If you're favorite editor is vi, then you'll need to mount /var or it will complain. - -Mark -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/DazvF/yyV91po54RAtyNAJ9EUCiLab8MxJt7nBvIluOu6LjtLACdHBVL FdE+Qi9U23GKTyn37CoMS/o= =BS0x -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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