Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2014 20:51:17 -0500 From: Brian Wood <woodbrian77@gmail.com> To: Brian Wood <woodbrian77@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem booting Message-ID: <CABWFOjtqiVdGJssoC2jHnybKTmgLFmLqw2EEDKztR7=Sm7QVAg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20140728232101.GA1425@slackbox.erewhon.home> References: <CABWFOjs79za1eUheAKnEqXT2RagY32hhB91-3ugV5CqFMgzx-A@mail.gmail.com> <20140728201316.GA75558@slackbox.erewhon.home> <CABWFOju0vEgE6A2%2BKU2Dq5coK=K84fU1T78fS_C7jA0mi9oMGw@mail.gmail.com> <20140728232101.GA1425@slackbox.erewhon.home>
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On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 6:21 PM, Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 03:25:52PM -0500, Brian Wood wrote: > > > > I'm not sure how to edit that file. I can get to grub prompt but > > don't know if that is where I should be to edit it. I believe I'm on > > 10-Stable and amd64 also. > > Boot from a FreeBSD USB stick or a CD-ROM that contains a live-CD image. > (e.g. FreeBSD-10.0-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso or > FreeBSD-10.0-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img) > > Once you get to the main menu of the installer, choose the =E2=80=9CLive = CD=E2=80=9D > option. > Mount the partition where /boot resides. Then you can edit the file. > > Just to be clear I'm using PCBSD 10 "Joule". I put the dvd in and got to an emergency shell. There I could edit /boot/device.hints but not save it because it was on a read-only file system. (Maybe that was on the dvd.) I tried mounting some things listed under /dev but that didn't work. I'm not sure what partition /boot is on.
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