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[Mikhail Goriachev]

none none wrote:
> Hi
>   I fear that this time a messed up big time. I have two hard drives one with Windows XP (40G) and another with FreeBSD 6.1  (10G). Eveything was ok until I decided i wanted to mount my windows drive to FreBSD (i run KDE as GUI). I followed the instruction from OnLamp.com and since i wanted the whole process to be automated on every boot i added the following lines in /etc/fstab using ee: 
>   /dev/ad0s1  /windows        ntfs   rw       1     1
>  
>   and everything looked normal until i rebooted! now when i choose FreeBSD on the bootmanager it starts looking ok and ends up with the following:
>   fsck: exec fsck-ntfs for /dev/ad0s1 in /sbin:/usr/sbin: No such file or directory
>   Unknown error: help!
>   init /bin/sh on /etc/rc terminated abnormaly, going to single user mode
>   Enter full pathname of shell of RETURN for /bin/sh
>    
>   if i enter single user mode it dasen't seem to recognize many commands: starrtx, ee, pico, emacs etc so i cannot change my /etc/fstab in case this is the problem. 
>    
>   Moreover now i am unable to enter windows as the bootmanager when i ask him to load the DOS disk it just reboots the system. I even tried to leave only the (40G) on the machine but thens it just crashes right after memeory check. I am seriously in need for some help, if anyone could suggest anything i would appreciate it a lot. Thanks in advance
>   andreas Sotriakopoulos


Hi,

This one is gonna sound funny. I once had a mistype in /etc/fstab
myself. I solved it by pulling the hard drive off the box, mounting it
on another one and then I modified the file. I guess you could do the
same if you have a spare FreeBSD box lying around. But there must be a
better way doing it though.


Cheers,
Mikhail.


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