I had an old FBSD 7.2 CD. good enough for this I thought. I booted from that but now I need to mount the file systems on my hard drive. How do I do that?
I agree,, once I get the /etc file system mounted I can edit the file. Okay, next.. How do I do an fsck on the /usr file system when coming up? On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 10:32 PM, Ryan Coleman <edi...@d3photography.com>wrote: > Boot to a boot disk.. anything... CD, DVD, USB > > Load up vi - you can probably do this from a live linux distro. > > Unedit the line. > > Save. > > Quit. > > Reboot. > > You're golden. > > > On May 6, 2011, at 9:06 PM, Henry Olyer wrote: > > > Woe is me. > > > > First, I simply messed up, happens to us all from time to time. I lost > > power on an laptop running 8.2. > > > > Restarted it but for some reason the fsck didn't run and I lost some /usr > > files. > > > > I tried to do an fsck manually but because it's mounted I got nowhere. > So I > > put a comment ("#") in front of the /usr line for the /etc/fstab file. > > > > Now, I can't boot. > > > > I need what's on my disk -- of course! > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" > > _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"