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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au!news.apana.org.au!posgate.acis.com.au!news.can.connect.com.au!news.syd.connect.com.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.caldera.com!enews.sgi.com!EU.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!sprint!howland.erols.net!ais.net!uunet!in1.uu.net!140.142.64.3!news.u.washington.edu!news.alt.net!newspost1.alt.net!usenet From: Dan Odom <daniel@thelonious.spidome.net> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: /bin/sh -> /usr/local/bin/bash won't boot Date: 14 Apr 1997 10:30:54 -0500 Organization: Altopia Corp. - Affordable Usenet Access - http://www.alt.net Lines: 33 Message-ID: <87wwq539ld.fsf@thelonious.spidome.net> References: <3350EBA5.26EB8E3B@airmail.net> X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.4.37/XEmacs 19.15 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:39065 Phil Crown <pcrown@airmail.net> writes: > 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. It sounds like your /usr partition isn't mounted when something wants sh. My advice is to let /bin/sh be and just use chsh to change your personal shell to bash. > > 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! :-) Just mount /dev/wd0 / should do it (I think). > > -- > Phil Crown pcrown@airmail.net http://web2.airmail.net/pcrown/ -- Daniel Odom | product designer | PGP key available via finger "Without going out of your door, you can know the ways of the world. Without peeping through your window, you can see the way of heaven. The farther you go, the less you know." -- Tao Te Ching chapter 47