John Murphy wrote:
On Sat, 1 Dec 2007 06:18:13 +0000
RW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Sat, 1 Dec 2007 04:44:27 +0000
John Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I've just successfully done the world and kernel upgrade from 7 beta2
to beta3. I've always had a mergemaster phobia, but it didn't seem too
bad this time. I thought I'd broken it after choosing /bin/tcsh as my
shell in single user mode. It grumbled about termcap (I think) and
then gave me a "simple shell" with a % prompt.
...
I'll know to always accept the suggested /bin/sh in future, but I was
wondering if the only reason a choice of a different shell is offered
is to scare the unwary.
Selecting /bin/[t]csh always works for me.
I just tried it again with exactly the same results (FreeBSD-7.0 beta3):
[after pressing 4 at the Beasty menu]
Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ad4s2a
Enter full path name of shell or RETURN for /bin/sh:
/bin/tcsh
sh: Cannot open /etc/termcap
sh: using dumb terminal settings
%fsck -p
fsck: Command not found
%mount -u /
mount: Command not found
%reboot
reboot: Command not found
%exit
logout ... continues to a Login prompt.
You simply don't have the commands in your PATH. Type /sbin/mount,
/sbin/fsck, /sbin/reboot and so on, and it does work. Never tried using
an setenv PATH /bin:/sbin:usr/bin:/usr/sbin(etc) in single user mode,
but I reckon it works.
Also note that vi doesn't work by default as it needs to write to /tmp.
So mount /tmp or re-mount / to RW permissions.
Regards,
Jorn
Pressing RETURN or typing /bin/sh gets a '#' prompt and working fsck etc.
Is your /etc/termcap a symlink?
ll /etc/termcap
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 23 Nov 15 20:27 /etc/termcap ->
/usr/share/misc/termcap
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