Thomas Boroske wrote:

>> All of a sudden RiscBSD refuses to boot. It gets as far as the beep and the
>> line about the VIDC20, and then freezes. 
>
>Had problems like this more than once (I remember the VIDC).
>It's quite funny, ISTR that I eventually found my /etc/fstab was somehow
>corrupted, but I don't know how this could happen.
>It's intersting in this context to see that while UnixFS should not allow
>it, a file in /etc that's modified and then saved *will* be changed despite
>the permission denied message, altough anything you add to it will appear 
>as zeroes only.
>In my case there were some spurious zeros somewhere which I could delete 
>via Zap and UnixFS.

Well, I'm not sure how I could have messed up any files in /etc. I looked at
fstab, and this is what it said:

/dev/wd0a / ffs rw 1 1
/dev/wd0e /usr ffs rw 1 2

Of course, I have absolutely no idea what it /should/ say I can't tell if
this is right or wrong. What should I do now?