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From: dobrien@seas.legent.com (David O'Brien)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Single User Mode How?
Date: 9 Aug 1995 21:03:38 GMT
Organization: George Washington University
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Paul Flores (pflores@phoenix.net) wrote:
: John Creasey (johnc@sydney.DIALix.oz.au) wrote:
: : Ok I have stuffed up my FreeBSD 2.0 PC really badly.
: : I need to either boot it from a floppy or get into single
: : user mode.
:
: After you get the prompt, you'll have to mount your / partition as rw
: (comes up as r only)
After booting single user, mount the root file system read/write by:
mount -u /dev/wd0a /
For an IDE drive. I believe it is either /dev/sd0a or /dev/hd0a if your
root partition is on a SCSI drive.
-- David (dobrien@seas.gwu.edu)