Date: Sat, 08 Nov 2008 22:29:47 +0100 From: Andreas Tobler <andreast-list@fgznet.ch> To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Horst_G=FCnther_Burkhardt_III?= <horst@sxemacs.org> Cc: FreeBSD PowerPC ML <freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: If it's broke, where's fixit? Message-ID: <491604CB.8000703@fgznet.ch> In-Reply-To: <1226143286.23132.10.camel@horst-tla> References: <1226143286.23132.10.camel@horst-tla>
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Hallo Horst, Horst Günther Burkhardt III wrote: > I just made a few configurative screwups. Ones which are stopping the > system from booting. > > (lol, i stuffed up an fstab entry) > > Once the boot process attempts to drop into single-user mode, it outputs > the following error every thirty seconds before being arrested by a > Ctrl-Alt-Delete forcing the machine down : > > bsdbox init: can't get /dev/console for controlling terminal: Operation > not permitted > > ... Is there a fixit image for ppc? If not, why not? If yes, where? > Also if not, what can be recommended to get me a working fbsd live > system for just long enough to fix the REAL one? I do not know about a 'fixit' image. But I recently had a similar issue where I ended up in installing the whole dist from scratch again. Not that bad, I'm working with fbsd sitting on a fw (firewire) disk, not on the internal one. I screwed one disk and I was not able to get it back. So I took a new fw disk, did it again and now I can play. But I was not able to resurect the first fw disk so far, I guess it might be due to fw issues. I chained them together but I was not able to access the bad disk. But, the idea you might try is to install a minimal fbsd installation on a second disk, might be fw, and boot from there and resurect the bad entry in fstab. Regards, Andreas
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