Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 08:25:59 -0400 From: Mike Jeays <mj001@rogers.com> To: Mikhail Goriachev <mikhailg@webanoide.org> Cc: none none <menwn@yahoo.co.uk>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: MESS Message-ID: <1148300759.21000.86.camel@chaucer.jeays.ca> In-Reply-To: <447189AC.7020004@webanoide.org> References: <20060522090248.49882.qmail@web26201.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> <447189AC.7020004@webanoide.org>
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On Mon, 2006-05-22 at 19:51 +1000, Mikhail Goriachev wrote: > none none wrote: > > Hi > > I fear that this time a messed up big time. I have two hard drives one with Windows XP (40G) and another with FreeBSD 6.1 (10G). Eveything was ok until I decided i wanted to mount my windows drive to FreBSD (i run KDE as GUI). I followed the instruction from OnLamp.com and since i wanted the whole process to be automated on every boot i added the following lines in /etc/fstab using ee: > > /dev/ad0s1 /windows ntfs rw 1 1 > > > > and everything looked normal until i rebooted! now when i choose FreeBSD on the bootmanager it starts looking ok and ends up with the following: > > fsck: exec fsck-ntfs for /dev/ad0s1 in /sbin:/usr/sbin: No such file or directory > > Unknown error: help! > > init /bin/sh on /etc/rc terminated abnormaly, going to single user mode > > Enter full pathname of shell of RETURN for /bin/sh > > > > if i enter single user mode it dasen't seem to recognize many commands: starrtx, ee, pico, emacs etc so i cannot change my /etc/fstab in case this is the problem. > > > > Moreover now i am unable to enter windows as the bootmanager when i ask him to load the DOS disk it just reboots the system. I even tried to leave only the (40G) on the machine but thens it just crashes right after memeory check. I am seriously in need for some help, if anyone could suggest anything i would appreciate it a lot. Thanks in advance > > andreas Sotriakopoulos > > > Hi, > > This one is gonna sound funny. I once had a mistype in /etc/fstab > myself. I solved it by pulling the hard drive off the box, mounting it > on another one and then I modified the file. I guess you could do the > same if you have a spare FreeBSD box lying around. But there must be a > better way doing it though. > > > Cheers, > Mikhail. > > The 'ed' editor is in /bin, and so is available at single-user boot. It is a real antique, but if you have a copy of the manual it is not too hard to correct /etc/fstab. 'ee' is in /usr/bin -- Mike Jeays http://ca.geocities.com/mike.jeays@rogers.com
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