Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1996 10:51:25 -0700 From: Wes Peters <wes@btsslc.com> To: craig@os.com Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: forwarded message from Craig Shrimpton Message-ID: <199601171745.JAA23918@freefall.freebsd.org>
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Craig Shrimpton <craigs@os.com> asked:
> 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.
Boot in single-user mode by entering -s at the boot prompt. fsck your
root disk, since it is mounted read-only. Remount the disk read-write
with:
# mount -u /
You can now edit fstab with 'ed' and remove the offending mount point.
Exiting from the single-user shell should bring the system up multi-
user.
--
I'd rather be sailing.
Wes Peters BTS SLC wes@btsslc.com
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