Re: Tried to symlink /etc to another disk, now stuck

2008-06-13 Thread Glenn Gillis
Steve Bertrand wrote, On 6/12/2008 7:09 PM: Steve Bertrand wrote: Dan Nelson wrote: I'm off to try it. I've got a system here with a da device. I'll fsck up /etc/fstab, reboot, and report back with the appropriate mountroot prompt entry... # cat /etc/fstab # Device

Tried to symlink /etc to another disk, now stuck

2008-06-12 Thread Glenn Gillis
I think I did just about the worst thing I could do to my organization's FreeBSD-4.11 email server today: I was trying to free up space on the root disk and attempted to copy the /etc directory to another disk, /new/etc, then delete and symlink the old location to the new: $ sudo cp -Rp /etc

Re: Tried to symlink /etc to another disk, now stuck

2008-06-12 Thread Steve Bertrand
Glenn Gillis wrote: Now, I cannot log in as a privileged user to copy or move /new/etc back to /etc. (Because the password files were also in /etc.) I've tried booting into Single User mode with boot -s at the boot prompt, only to receive a mountroot prompt wanting to know where to find the

Re: Tried to symlink /etc to another disk, now stuck

2008-06-12 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jun 12), Glenn Gillis said: I think I did just about the worst thing I could do to my organization's FreeBSD-4.11 email server today: I was trying to free up space on the root disk and attempted to copy the /etc directory to another disk, /new/etc, then delete and

Re: Tried to symlink /etc to another disk, now stuck

2008-06-12 Thread Steve Bertrand
Dan Nelson wrote: To make a long story shorter, is there any hope for getting a privileged user account on this machine to move /etc back to where it should be? It may be easiest to boot a live CD (FreeSBIE, or a FreeBSD-7 install disc 1 should work), mount both of your hard drives from it,

Re: Tried to symlink /etc to another disk, now stuck

2008-06-12 Thread Steve Bertrand
Steve Bertrand wrote: Dan Nelson wrote: I'm off to try it. I've got a system here with a da device. I'll fsck up /etc/fstab, reboot, and report back with the appropriate mountroot prompt entry... # cat /etc/fstab # DeviceMountpoint FStype Options Dump Pass#

Re: Tried to symlink /etc to another disk, now stuck

2008-06-12 Thread Steve Bertrand
To the OP...if you know what your disk type is, you CAN get it to continue to mount root at the mountroot prompt. Furthering that, you can also fsck and mount your other disk mountpoints in order to gain access to your editing binaries. I'm sorry to reply to my own posts, but I'd like to

Re: Tried to symlink /etc to another disk, now stuck

2008-06-12 Thread Andrew Berry
Steve Bertrand wrote: If the disk type is known, it is as simple as typing the appropriate location of the root fs at that prompt and the system will come up. I don't remember about FreeBSD 4, but last time I dealt with a broken fstab on FreeBSD 6 I could just press tab to get a list of