From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Jun 13 12:15:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (f231.law8.hotmail.com [216.33.241.231]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7F70A37C059 for ; Tue, 13 Jun 2000 12:15:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jmd526@hotmail.com) Received: (qmail 78144 invoked by uid 0); 13 Jun 2000 19:15:06 -0000 Message-ID: <20000613191506.78143.qmail@hotmail.com> Received: from 209.220.228.2 by www.hotmail.com with HTTP; Tue, 13 Jun 2000 12:15:06 PDT X-Originating-IP: [209.220.228.2] From: "John Daniels" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: HELP! unbootable due to rc.conf Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 15:15:06 EDT Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi: I forgot to add a quote mark in rc.conf. Now my system will not boot fully. It takes me to a shell prompt from which I can move around the system ("cd") and execute simple commands like "ls" but I can't bring up an editor (I tried vi and ee) and when I tried to use mv to rename rc.conf (thinking that the system would boot with only the settings in /etc/defaults/rc.conf), the system responded that the drive was read-only. What can I do to get my system booting properly again? John ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message