CCC problem

[Andrew Nye]

After a disaster with the HD in my late 2001 iBook, I tried restoring a 
clone made previously with CCC. via an external FW drive.
However, booting from the iBook, I get the message:

  /etc/master .passwrd: no such file or directory
this is repeated with the addition of:
sh -2.05a   then a hash sign

The iBook boots and runs quite happily from the FW drive.

I've used Disk Utility to repair disk and permissions and fsck'd it.

Any suggestions, please?

Thanks
Andrew