Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2002 18:04:50 -0700 (PDT) From: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu> To: chris@ooc2000.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help! Syntax error in rc.conf has made my entire filesystem read only!!!!!! Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10207021802180.42923-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu> In-Reply-To: <20020703005701.30100.qmail@web21412.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Tue, 2 Jul 2002, Chris wrote: > I was making some changes to rc.conf, and I introduced a syntax error (I forgot to close quotes on > my ed0= line, configuring my NIC). It'd be easy to fix, but I can't make any changes whatsover to > any file -- everything I try gets me "Read-Only file system". Also, during boot time it makes me > enter the path to my shell (bash), and I can't ever logout - every attempt makes me reenter the > shell. (I guess rc.conf is getting run out logout time too and it's failing in the same place). > > Has anyone seen this? What do I do???? I just have to make one tiny change to rc.conf and I'm all > set . . . but how???? > You boot single user. You type mount -u / and then mount -a You should thus be able to mount all your file systems, which will give you access to your favorite editor. You might have to type /sbin/mount -rw -a or perhaps even mount the file systems individually; you can see what they are with cat /etc/fstab Annelise -- Annelise Anderson Author of: FreeBSD: An Open-Source Operating System for Your PC Available from: BSDmall.com and amazon.com Book Website: http://www.bittreepress.com/FreeBSD/introbook/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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