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Date:      Fri, 16 Jul 2004 18:32:27 +0200
From:      Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely12.cicely.de>
To:        Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: hm, how to recover from a fscked-up device.hints?
Message-ID:  <20040716163226.GB21212@cicely12.cicely.de>
In-Reply-To: <20040715130055.GC17340@freebie.xs4all.nl>
References:  <20040714203642.GA13855@freebie.xs4all.nl> <20040715114425.GG29928@submonkey.net> <20040715130055.GC17340@freebie.xs4all.nl>

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On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 03:00:55PM +0200, Wilko Bulte wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 12:44:25PM +0100, Ceri Davies wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 10:36:42PM +0200, Wilko Bulte wrote:
> > > I just created myself an interesting challenge:
> > > 
> > >  - I basically replaced my /boot/device.hints with a nonsensical one (don't
> > >    ask), it is not a device.hints file at all.
> > > 
> > > How does one recover from that?  Booting kernel.old does not fix it for
> > > obvious reasons..
> > 
> > Boot from CDROM?
> 
> Yeah.. I thought of that one, but I was wondering about something 
> more clever. Probably does not exist  :)

Cut & Paste it on serial console - or as other said type the minimum
required for single user mode by hand.

-- 
B.Walter                   BWCT                http://www.bwct.de
bernd@bwct.de                                  info@bwct.de



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