hm, how to recover from a fscked-up device.hints?
Wilko Bulte
wb at freebie.xs4all.nl
Fri Jul 16 09:34:13 PDT 2004
On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 06:32:27PM +0200, Bernd Walter wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 03:00:55PM +0200, Wilko Bulte wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 12:44:25PM +0100, Ceri Davies wrote:
> > > On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 10:36:42PM +0200, Wilko Bulte wrote:
> > > > I just created myself an interesting challenge:
> > > >
> > > > - I basically replaced my /boot/device.hints with a nonsensical one (don't
> > > > ask), it is not a device.hints file at all.
> > > >
> > > > How does one recover from that? Booting kernel.old does not fix it for
> > > > obvious reasons..
> > >
> > > Boot from CDROM?
> >
> > Yeah.. I thought of that one, but I was wondering about something
> > more clever. Probably does not exist :)
>
> Cut & Paste it on serial console - or as other said type the minimum
> required for single user mode by hand.
I went for the CDboot method, which obviously works OK.
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Wilko Bulte wilko at FreeBSD.org
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