Rescue Shell with no documentation

4o4rh

It is great to have a Rescue Shell, but not much use if there is no document.

while trying to solve various boot errors i have manage to cause the system to crash with entries in the loader.conf.local file. That raises two points;

The is no boot option to boot defaults without loading additional parameters.
Using the Rescue Shell to comment out the suspect lines.

In 2.4.4 it seems no longer possible to mount the system drive, and there is a complete lack of information on a) how to mount the drive and access it to enable editing files.

Grimson

https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/

4o4rh

@grimson feel free to direct me to the specific page in the freebsd manual to address
https://forum.netgate.com/topic/141593/boot-hangs-can-t-access-system

as typical nothing helpful from you except trying to be smart.

a) no answer on how to bypass loader.conf.local - pfsense specific
b) no answer on how to boot to defaults (option doesn't exist on pfsense menu)
c) no answer on how to mount drives under 2.4.4 (presume they are protected)

Grimson

@gwaitsi said in Rescue Shell with no documentation:

a) no answer on how to bypass loader.conf.local - pfsense specific

Mount the drive and edit/delete it.

b) no answer on how to boot to defaults (option doesn't exist on pfsense menu)

Boot to what defaults, if you edit the base OS files then that's it.

c) no answer on how to mount drives under 2.4.4 (presume they are protected)

Well you are the one that did the installation, you should know what file system you have chosen and with what options, from there you can check the FreeBSD documentation on how to mount the drive. pfSense does nothing special/custom there.

Judging by your repeatedly shown incompetence I would guess you are trying to mount a ZFS pool with the normal mount command, so check the ZFS documentation on how to mount a pool:
https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=zfs&apropos=0&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+11.2-RELEASE+and+Ports&arch=default&format=html

4o4rh

@grimson

"Mount the drive and edit/delete it." - saw the post, you would see the errors. i chose ufs with GPT partition.
"Boot to what defaults, if you edit the base OS files then that's it." - all pfsense boot options load "loader.conf.local". If you can't mount the file system, you can't edit the file.....duh....
"Judging by your repeatedly shown incompetence" - i never said at any time that i was a professional networking specialist. the product is open source for community and i came to the conclusion, i needed a firewall (amongst other things). The forum is supposed to be a place where people go for like minded people to get and give help.

(clearly, you have no friends and use the forum as a place to try and convince people of your superiority. Sure your not German? One thing we can tell about you is, your more of a troll than someone interested in supporting members of the community. Perhaps you should get out more and try some sport or something)

Grimson

@gwaitsi said in Rescue Shell with no documentation:

"Mount the drive and edit/delete it." - saw the post, you would see the errors. i chose ufs with GPT partition.

So then mount the correct partition, not the whole disk. Again, RTFM:
https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mount-unmount.html
https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/disk-organization.html