Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2019 17:08:07 +1030 From: "O'Connor, Daniel" <darius@dons.net.au> To: bob prohaska <fbsd@www.zefox.net> Cc: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Editing on the serial console Message-ID: <30423F14-4038-4656-83FC-14DE0943B26B@dons.net.au> In-Reply-To: <20190307035427.GA42903@www.zefox.net> References: <20190307035427.GA42903@www.zefox.net>
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> On 7 Mar 2019, at 14:24, bob prohaska <fbsd@www.zefox.net> wrote: >=20 > Editing files in single-user mode on the serial console=20 > is non-trivial. Both vi and ee have problems displaying=20 > the file, ed doesn't really try so it works but isn't > much fun. Is there a better option? When the machine=20 > boots single-user it reports "can't read /etc/termcap",=20 > is something misconfigured? /etc/termcap is a symlink to /usr/share/misc/termcap - if you mount /usr = (read only is fine) then it should work. ie since you are in single user mode only / has been mounted. If / and /usr are the same FS them something else is wrong :) -- Daniel O'Connor "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum
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