From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 2 18:31:55 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA41337B400 for ; Tue, 2 Jul 2002 18:31:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from midway.uchicago.edu (midway.uchicago.edu [128.135.12.12]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EAFC43E0A for ; Tue, 2 Jul 2002 18:31:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dsyphers@uchicago.edu) Received: from Yggdrasil (adsl-68-20-19-216.dsl.chcgil.ameritech.net [68.20.19.216]) by midway.uchicago.edu (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g631VHot024655; Tue, 2 Jul 2002 20:31:17 -0500 (CDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: David Syphers Reply-To: dsyphers@uchicago.edu To: mystic_mac1@mac.com, chris@ooc2000.com Subject: Re: Help! Syntax error in rc.conf has made my entire filesystem read only!!!!!! Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2002 20:31:17 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.1 Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <200207022029.52399.dsyphers@uchicago.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG You need to boot to single-user mode. Do not choose bash there, choose /bin/sh. To get a system you can work with, you must remount / read-write. (fsck'ing the filesystems is just a good habit.) Then mount /usr so you can use your favorite editor for rc.conf. fsck -p mount -u / mount -a -t ufs Then fix rc.conf, reboot, and enjoy. Just be glad you didn't mess up your fstab file. I did that once... -David -- Everyone who believes in telekinesis, raise my hand... Astronomy and Astrophysics Center The University of Chicago To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message