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Date:      Thu, 05 Oct 2000 12:39:27 -0700
From:      Kent Stewart <kstewart@urx.com>
To:        =?iso-8859-1?Q?V=E9ronique?= Huck <v.huck@free.fr>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: How to fix fstab ?
Message-ID:  <39DCD8EF.697FDD9B@urx.com>
References:  <39DCD52C.7F71E519@free.fr>

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Véronique Huck wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> After mounting a second hard drive in my box, I have added a wrong entry
> in
> /etc/fstab/ and my system (FBS 4.0) doesn't boot any longer.
> The boot sequence stops with :
>         ..
>         ...
>         (checking and mounting /dev/ad0s.. works fine)
>         ...
>         /dev/da0 : the following file system had an unexpected inconsistency
>         :/dev/da0 (usr/home/backup)
>         Automatic file system check failed...help !
>         Enter full pathname of shell or return for /bin/sh
> 
> I tried to overwrite fstab with fstab(tilde) but here is the
> following answer : read-only file system
> Is there a way to recover the original file before starting a brand new
> installation ?    :-(

You should be able to "mount /" and then edit your /etc/fstab.

Kent

> 
> Many thanks
> 
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