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From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: HELP: crash, can't exec /bin/sh
Date: 14 Aug 1995 10:04:03 +0200
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Wei-Jou Chen <jou@nematic.ieo.nctu.edu.tw> wrote:

>	After rebooting the crashed FreeBSD on my pc, I got the messages
>"can't exec /bin/sh for /etc/rc: Not a directory" and
>"can't exec /bin/sh for single user: Not a directory"
>	What can I do now ?  ( I also can't exec other shells. )

Can you execute something from /stand?
-- 
cheers, J"org                      private:   joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
                                   http://www.sax.de/~joerg/

Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)