From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Jun 13 12:36:41 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from corinth.bossig.com (corinth.bossig.com [208.26.239.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9AB0D37BFBE; Tue, 13 Jun 2000 12:36:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kstewart@3-cities.com) Received: from 3-cities.com (unverified [208.26.241.135]) by corinth.bossig.com (Rockliffe SMTPRA 4.2.1) with ESMTP id ; Tue, 13 Jun 2000 12:37:27 -0700 Message-ID: <39468D51.58991339@3-cities.com> Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 12:36:49 -0700 From: Kent Stewart Organization: BOSSig (BOSS Internet Group) X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Daniels Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HELP! unbootable due to rc.conf References: <20000613191506.78143.qmail@hotmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 > > ________________________________________________________________________ > 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-questions" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ SETI(Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) @ HOME http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message