Mounting problem on FreeBSD

Alright, so I was editing /etc/fstab and once again I spelt something wrong. You'd think I learn my lesson the first two times, but no.

Anyway, I spelt the device name wrong. /dev/ad0s1 I spelt /dev/ads01.

When I rebooted, it came across this prompt to manual mount a drive. So what I did was ufs:/dev/ad0s2 which is my FreeBSD partition. Now, after that it goes into 'initial host setup' and freezes there, or it seems to freeze I waited around 30 minutes.

Any ideas?

Not sure what you mean by:



Normally if you spelt something wrong in /etc/fstab or /etc/rc.conf etc etc you'd:

• enter single user mode - usually you don't have much choice in this as you know, the OS does it for you
• (re)mount the partition containing /etc/fstab in READ/WRITE mode (usually the mode is set to read-only in single user mode). To check what mode the disk is mounted, issue '/sbin/mount' and check to see if 'read only' is listed in brackts to the right of any mounted partitions. If it's read-only you need to toggle the read mode to read/write - do this using '/sbin/mount -u /'. You're now ready to write to the partition.
• finally make any changes to /etc/fstab using your favourite editor and reboot - remember though that you may need to use the full path to the editor '/usr/bin/vi' for example instead of just 'vi'.

For more info make sure to read the manpage for mount(8).

I don't think you understand, I was not able to boot up until entering 'manual mount'. It doesn't matter now I reinstalled.