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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!newsfeed.direct.ca!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!206.66.12.35!news-in.iadfw.net!pcrown.net!not-for-mail From: Phil Crown <pcrown@airmail.net> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: /bin/sh -> /usr/local/bin/bash won't boot Date: Sun, 13 Apr 1997 09:20:21 -0500 Organization: RedHat Linux v4.1 Lines: 17 Message-ID: <3350EBA5.26EB8E3B@airmail.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: dal25-10.ppp.iadfw.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; Linux 2.0.27 i486) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:39006 I installed bash2 from the ports collection, then made a symbolic link like ln -s /bin/sh /usr/local/bin/sh Now the computer won't boot. My questions is, how do I mount the root file system after booting up the boot floppy? mount -t <fstype> /dev/wd0 I am not sure of the <fstype>, I could look in /etc/fstab, but I have to be mounted first to do that! :-) -- Phil Crown pcrown@airmail.net http://web2.airmail.net/pcrown/