Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 12:36:49 -0700 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com> 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: <39468D51.58991339@3-cities.com> References: <20000613191506.78143.qmail@hotmail.com>
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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.
>
> What can I do to get my system booting properly again?
You have to mount /. The last time I did this was 3 or 4 weeks ago and
a "mount -a" in single user mode worked. Then you correct your rc.conf
error. I rebooted at this point.
Kent
>
> John
>
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