Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 21:26:04 +0200 From: Udo Schweigert <ust@cert.siemens.de> To: John Daniels <jmd526@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HELP! unbootable due to rc.conf Message-ID: <20000613212604.A3284@alaska.cert.siemens.de> In-Reply-To: <20000613191506.78143.qmail@hotmail.com>; from jmd526@hotmail.com on Tue, Jun 13, 2000 at 03:15:06PM -0400 References: <20000613191506.78143.qmail@hotmail.com>
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On Tue, Jun 13, 2000 at 15:15:06 -0400, John Daniels wrote:
> 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.
>
# mount -a
(or minimal: mount /; mount /usr)
# vi /etc/rc.conf
Regards
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