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Date:      Thu, 10 Jul 2003 11:14:07 -0700
From:      Mark Woodson <mwoodson@sricrm.com>
To:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:    Re: Changed a filesystem's name -- now system hangs on reboot (help)
Message-ID:  <200307101114.10114.mwoodson@sricrm.com>
In-Reply-To: <20030710170111.GE3656@webserver.get-linux.org>
References:  <39020-2200374103946796@M2W035.mail2web.com> <3F0D112F.9010804@mac.com> <20030710170111.GE3656@webserver.get-linux.org>

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On Thursday 10 July 2003 10:01 am, Joshua Oreman wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 03:09:35AM -0400 or thereabouts, Chuck Swiger wro=
te:
> > greg@exchange.janemobley.com wrote:
> > [ ... ]
> >
> > >I've looked through the handbook and tried (unsuccessfully) to reboot
> > > into single-user mode or otherwise get to a place where I can either
> > > comment out the line in fstab or skip the check -- no luck.
> > >
> > >Any ideas much appreciated.
> >
> > This is when you boot single-user mode off of the install CD, or the
> > FIXIT CD (#2) if you have that around.  Then mount your hard drive's ro=
ot
> > partition on /mnt (or make something in /tmp), and fix the problem.
>
> Completely unnecessary.
>
> Here's what you do:
> Booting [/kernel] in 9 seconds ... <press Space>
> OK boot -s
> ...
> Enter shell or RETURN for /bin/sh: <press Enter>
> # mount -uw /
> # mount /usr
> # my_favorite_editor /etc/fstab
> # umount /usr
> # exit

If you're favorite editor is vi, then you'll need to mount /var or it will=
=20
complain.

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