cant get to my shell!

[Lowell Gilbert]

David Wilhelm <dave at bluefir.org> writes:

> On Thu, 27 Jul 2006, at 09:03:41 +0000, Marwan Sultan wrote:
>>  i tried to use "fixit" from sysinstall by using the emergency shell, to 
>> delete libmap.conf
>>  (asuming its cuzing the problem) but from the emergency shell u cannot see 
>> that file,
>
> In order to edit libmap.conf, the partition where it lives needs to be
> mounted. If you booted from a CD, you'll need to mount the hard drive
> partition by hand.
>
> My /etc/libmap.conf is located in the root partition, my hard drive is
> ad0, and FreeBSD is on the first slice, so the device I needed is
> /dev/ad0s1a. Of course, yours may be different.
>
> From the emergency shell, mount your partition to some convenient directory,
> say it's /mnt:
>
> # mount /dev/ad0s1a /mnt
>
> Then you can edit your libmap.conf at it's current, temporary location:
> # vi /mnt/etc/libmap.conf
>
> Reboot after it's fixed.

Before changing any files, though, make sure the root filesystem passes an fsck.