From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 30 15:17:35 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id PAA05072 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 30 Aug 1995 15:17:35 -0700 Received: from cmc.eng.comsat.com (cmc.eng.comsat.com [134.133.169.1]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id PAA05066 for ; Wed, 30 Aug 1995 15:17:34 -0700 Received: from cmc (cmc.eng.comsat.com) by cmc.eng.comsat.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA19882; Wed, 30 Aug 95 18:16:16 EDT Date: Wed, 30 Aug 1995 18:07:51 -0400 (EDT) From: MARC Giannoni Subject: Help! I blew away init To: questions@FreeBSD.org Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I accidently blew away init. Just how I acomplished this was by moving the directory sbin to another name. Everything is still on the disk, just not in the proper location. After quite a bit of investigation with the boot floppies, I can't find a way to get to a single user shell on the floppy drive! (Boy that would be nice!! Like the old 386BSD days!) Are there any of thoes old floppy images around? How can I change one entry in the root file system now that I can't boot the hard disk? When I try "fixit, disklabel, proceed" the system aborts when it finds the root directory already has "/stand". I do not want to try "fixit, fdisk, disklabel, proceed" because it will newfs all of the partitions that are specified, and blow away the whole hard drive. I am shure someone has been able to work through this problem before. | Marc V. Giannoni | Voice: (301) 428-2547 | | COMSAT Mobile Communications | Fax: (301) 601-5959 | | 22300 Comsat Drive | Internet: marc@cmc.eng.comsat.com | | Clarksburg, MD 20871 | Title: Software Engineer |