On Thu, Jul 16, 2020 at 09:54:06PM -0700, Andy Ruhl wrote: > What about booting from install media and dropping /rescue/sh into > whatever the defined shell path is? Isn't that a statically linked > binary that should work pretty much anywhere? Isn't that kinda what > it's for?
Yes, that works too. It mostly is intended for when you have really bricked your base install, like broken libc.so or ld.elf_so - then you can still "boot -a" and ask for /rescue/sh as shell. I like the "cp some other shell to /usr/pkg/bin/tcsh" way as that allows me to fully go multiuser and do all additional recover steps over the network. Martin
