From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 17 01:54:38 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id BAA00250 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 17 Jan 1996 01:54:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from nike.efn.org (garcia.efn.org [198.68.17.5]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id BAA00245 for ; Wed, 17 Jan 1996 01:54:33 -0800 (PST) Received: (from gurney_j@localhost) by nike.efn.org (8.6.11/8.6.9) id BAA08245; Wed, 17 Jan 1996 01:56:12 -0800 Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1996 01:56:11 -0800 (PST) From: John-Mark Gurney Reply-To: John-Mark Gurney To: Craig Shrimpton cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HELP! My fstab is messed up and I can't edit it. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 17 Jan 1996, Craig Shrimpton wrote: > Greetings, > > My fstab contains an invalid drive and it fails to mount / read-write at > boot time. Unless I can edit /etc/fstab I'm stuck. How do you overcome > this problem? I don't have a boot disk handy :-( I have the install disk > but it has no shell. well... when your at the # prompt... do a "mount -u -o rw /", this will make your / fs read/writable... then you might want to do a mount /dev/somedev /usr" to get access to vi... hope this helps... TTYL.. John-Mark gurney_j@efn.org Modem/FAX: (503) 683-6954 (FreeBSD Box) Live in Peace, destroy Micro$oft, support free software, run FreeBSD (unix) GCS/M/Sd#h+s+!gau-a--w++++vC+++++UF++++P---E---N++W---M--V--Y+t+5++G+b+D++ B----eu+h++!f++n---- CD5OUF++++.L-------2W.DM----N.9---NET2SP3s.2,4s.,4d.2,6---