uggg.. infinite reboot

[Brent Burkholder]

I modified my /etc/vfstab to mount an nfs directory at boot time. I think
that I caused a problem by adding the directory in the fsck field. Now,
when the machine reboots, I get a warning that it can't fsck an nfs
directory (that's fine) so it will auto-reboot (not fine!)

I've tried booting off of the cdrom w/ the -s option but I can't access the
HD's copy of /etc/vfstab to make corrections. Any suggestions?

Brent

[cbal...@nortel.com]

> Brent

You need to post which OS you're running... There are ways of
booting from installation material, and then mounting the root
disk, but they're slightly different from platform to platform.
Please give us Hardware, OS, and release, and someone will probably
be able to help you. Had to do this the other day with solaris x86
v2.6...

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Chris Ballard
Systems Administrator
cbal...@nortelnetworks.com

[George Dau]

"Brent Burkholder" <bb...@bicnet.net> wrote:

]I've tried booting off of the cdrom w/ the -s option but I can't access the

]HD's copy of /etc/vfstab to make corrections. Any suggestions?

Why not?

/etc is normally part of the / filesystem, and that is often on
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 or c0t3d0s0 - you might have to hunt around with format to
find it, then

fsck /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s0
mount /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s /mnt (or /a)
cd /mnt/etc
vi vfstab

what isn't working?

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