From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 5 16:31:23 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from whitestar.cpn.org.au (unknown [147.109.154.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D26114E88 for ; Mon, 5 Apr 1999 16:31:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cpn@dpac.tas.gov.au) Received: from whitestar.cpn.org.au (whitestar.cpn.org.au [172.16.1.4]) by whitestar.cpn.org.au (8.8.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA21429; Tue, 6 Apr 1999 09:29:43 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from cpn@dpac.tas.gov.au) Date: Tue, 6 Apr 1999 09:29:42 +1000 (EST) From: Carey Nairn X-Sender: cpn@whitestar.cpn.org.au To: Rick Knebel Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Please Help with boot freeze In-Reply-To: <000501be7fb9$b0ec3520$aa88fea9@inteva> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG You have been booted into single-user mode because of the error in your rc.conf file. By default this mounts the root filesystem only and in read-only mode. To remount your filesystems with the correct modes, use /sbin/mount -u -a The -a flag indicates that all the filesystems described in fstab(5) are mounted, except for those marked with the noauto flag. The -u flag indicates that the status of an already mounted file system should be changed. This will force the root filesystem to be remounted in read/write mode. cheers, Carey Nairn On Mon, 5 Apr 1999, Rick Knebel wrote: > Hi, > > I am very upset. > I just got my freebsd 3.1 the way I wanted with my home network and thinga > and now I have a big problem. > > I was editing my rc.conf and must have got sloppy. > On my nest reboot the bootup stopped right where it was mounting my drivce > and said: > /etc/rc.conf > 16:Synatax error: > end of file unexpected. > Enter full name of shell or return for /bin/sh. > > If I hit retrn I can see the files on my hard drive but cannot bring up an > editor to fix the rc.conf file. > > I tried copying rc.conf~ to rc.conf but it says file is read only. > > Please help. > I do not want to reload freebsd again. > > Thanks > Rick > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message