Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 22:20:06 -0400 From: Steve Bertrand <steve@ibctech.ca> To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Glenn Gillis <glenn@elaw.org> Subject: Re: Tried to symlink /etc to another disk, now stuck Message-ID: <4851D956.5080801@ibctech.ca> In-Reply-To: <4851D6DD.8090801@ibctech.ca> References: <84a992f30806121702r39f132a8y11f8e410221e132c@mail.gmail.com> <20080613012029.GA16341@dan.emsphone.com> <4851D328.8060107@ibctech.ca> <4851D6DD.8090801@ibctech.ca>
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> To the OP...if you know what your disk type is, you CAN get it to > continue to mount root at the mountroot prompt. > > Furthering that, you can also fsck and mount your other disk mountpoints > in order to gain access to your editing binaries. I'm sorry to reply to my own posts, but I'd like to point out that this exact scenario is a very good reason as to why I make either a digital or printout copy of my /etc/fstab file of every machine I run. Steve
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