From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 26 19:56:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tiger.med.nyu.edu (mcs01-ext.med.nyu.edu [128.122.2.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BB7837B479 for ; Sun, 26 Nov 2000 19:56:43 -0800 (PST) Received: (from xuc@localhost) by tiger.med.nyu.edu (8.11.1/8.11.1) id eAR3unI16110; Sun, 26 Nov 2000 22:56:49 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from xuchen66@yahoo.com) X-Authentication-Warning: tiger.med.nyu.edu: xuc set sender to xuchen66@yahoo.com using -f Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2000 22:56:49 -0500 From: Chen Xu To: degraz@tusco.net Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Editing fstab when system won't boot? Message-ID: <20001126225649.C16055@saturn.med.nyu.edu> Reply-To: xuchen66@yahoo.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from tmtroyer@hotmail.com on Sat, Nov 25, 2000 at 04:48:20AM -0000 X-Arbitrary-Number-Of-The-Day: 42 X-Sender: Mutt_1.2.5i FreeBSD4.2_stable Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG IF you mean you were dropped into single mode, then it will be simple. Just to 'mount -u /' and then use vi to edit the fstab again. Chen * Travis Troyer [001124 23:49]: > I edited my fstab file to mount a second hard drive I have. I made a > mistake, typing "/dec" instead of "/dev", now the system will not boot. I > remember having a problem like this before, and somehow I got into a mode, > even though the os wouldn't load, where I typed "edit" and it allowed me to > edit the file, and reboot.. I absolutely cannot remember, or find how I did > this. Anybody have any ideas? > > Also, this is another problem I have fixed awhile ago, but forgot how :) > When I connect to telnet or the ftp server, it takes forever for the login > to come up. Before I was told to comment out a line, I beleive, that had to > do with resoliving the hostname? > > Any help with either problem would be appreciated. > > Thanks, > > travis troyer > _____________________________________________________________________________________ > Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message