From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Jun 13 12:26:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from david.siemens.de (david.siemens.de [192.35.17.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3480937C080; Tue, 13 Jun 2000 12:26:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ust@cert.siemens.de) X-Envelope-Sender-Is: ust@cert.siemens.de (at relayer david.siemens.de) Received: from mail2.siemens.de (mail2.siemens.de [139.25.208.11]) by david.siemens.de (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id e5DJQ5R05094; Tue, 13 Jun 2000 21:26:06 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from mars.cert.siemens.de (ust.mchp.siemens.de [139.23.201.17]) by mail2.siemens.de (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id e5DJQ5M18616; Tue, 13 Jun 2000 21:26:05 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from alaska.cert.siemens.de (reims.mchp.siemens.de [139.23.202.134]) by mars.cert.siemens.de (8.10.2/8.10.2/Siemens CERT [ $Revision: 1.8 ]) with ESMTP id e5DJQ5n10144; Tue, 13 Jun 2000 21:26:05 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from ust@localhost) by alaska.cert.siemens.de (8.10.2/8.10.2/alaska [ $Revision: 1.4 ]) id e5DJQ4m03337; Tue, 13 Jun 2000 19:26:04 GMT Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 21:26:04 +0200 From: Udo Schweigert To: John Daniels 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> References: <20000613191506.78143.qmail@hotmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <20000613191506.78143.qmail@hotmail.com>; from jmd526@hotmail.com on Tue, Jun 13, 2000 at 03:15:06PM -0400 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 -- Udo Schweigert, Siemens AG | Voice : +49 89 636 42170 ZT IK 3, Siemens CERT | Fax : +49 89 636 41166 D-81730 Muenchen / Germany | email : ust@cert.siemens.de PGP-2/5 fingerprint | D8 A5 DF 34 EC 87 E8 C6 E2 26 C4 D0 EE 80 36 B2 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message