Fixit mode (live CD): can't find /etc/rc.conf

[Mel Flynn]

On Wednesday 12 August 2009 21:07:30 Nerius Landys wrote:
> On my recently updated (as in world+ports are up-to-date) FreeBSD 6.4
> box i tried to get Xorg running, and after building Xorg from ports
> and enabling hald and dbus in rc.conf, I get:
>
>   Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode
>
> This happens when I boot.  Now I'm trying to not start hald and dbus
> in rc.conf (I think that's what's causing the kernel problem).  So I
> am using the installation CD and going into fixit mode.  The problem
> is that I can't find rc.conf to edit.
>
> In /dev:
>   ad0
>   ad0s1
>   ad0s1a

By convention /etc should be on ad0s1a. If it's not, but /boot is there, you 
may need to fsck.
-- 
Mel