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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!news.apfel.de!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: /bin/sh -> /usr/local/bin/bash won't boot Date: 14 Apr 1997 21:25:16 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 57 Message-ID: <5iu7bs$26m@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <3350EBA5.26EB8E3B@airmail.net> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:39138 Phil Crown <pcrown@airmail.net> wrote: > I installed bash2 from the ports collection, then made a symbolic link > like > > ln -s /bin/sh /usr/local/bin/sh You shouldn't do _this_. :) The default /bin/sh is good enough for the daily jobs of a shell anyway (including a commandline editor, and most of the Posix features), and much less bloated. Remember, each system(3) library call will create an instance of this shell. If at all, build a statically compiled version of bash, and install this one. > Now the computer won't boot. Sure. /sbin/init wants to run ``sh -c /etc/rc''. But there's no /usr yet... > My questions is, how do I mount the root file system after > booting up the boot floppy? You don't need a boot floppy. :) > mount -t <fstype> /dev/wd0 > > I am not sure of the <fstype>, ... ...nor do you need the fstype at all (it's "ufs", for the curious). But, you need to remember the -u option to mount(8) (update). So now, boot your machine single-user, that's the -s option at the boot: prompt. Once /sbin/init has been loaded, it will ask you for the single-user shell, defaulting to /bin/sh. Since you don't have this one, pick /bin/csh. ;-) Then, check your filesystems, and mount them read/write: fsck -p mount -a -t local If your only concern would have been to mount the root f/s read/write, this is: mount -u / Btw., there's another instance of a /bin/sh available as /stand/sh. But, _don't_ copy this one into /bin, instead make it a link. It's the huge merged sysinstall binary, a megabyte-heavy thing. You don't want multiple copies of it. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)