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Date: Wed, 6 Sep 95 16:10:23 -0400
From: LPPelletier@cmq.qc.ca (Luc Pelletier)
Organization: Club Macintosh de Quebec
Subject: Root boot diskette
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Hi folks,

It's Luc again, the guy who lost his root password.

So far, I have a boot disquette that leaves me in a shell (with root
privileges). Now, I just wanna mount my  scsi disk to edit /etc/passwd.

My FreeBSD partition is installed on my second scsi drive. If I let
my system boot normally from the second drive, I have two lines (among
many other ones) that looks like

	/dev/rsd1a: clean, 27120 free ...
	/dev/rsd1s1e: clean, 20508 free ...

On the other hand, my /etc/fstab file looks like this :

	/dev/sd1a		/	ufs	rw 1 1
	/dev/sd1s1e		/usr	ufs...

On my boot disquette, I have the device rds1a and sd1a present in 
the /dev directory. Once booted, I tried the command 

	mount /dev/rsd1a /mnt

but I got the message
	
	Block device required

I also tried the same command with the sd1a device but I got the
message Device not configured.

What did I do wrong?   -Lpp