From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 13 16:35:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from kodos.tinet.ie (kodos.tinet.ie [159.134.237.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D659B37BA1C for ; Thu, 13 Apr 2000 16:35:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fcfbsd@mail2.eircom.net) Received: from p22.as1.naas1.eircom.net ([159.134.254.22]) by kodos.tinet.ie with smtp (Exim 2.05 #23) id 12ft8t-0003cf-00; Fri, 14 Apr 2000 00:35:26 +0100 Subject: Re: Unable to boot Date: Fri, 14 Apr 00 00:38:08 +0100 x-sender: fcfbsd@mail2.eircom.net x-mailer: Claris Emailer 2.0, March 15, 1997 From: fcfbsd To: "Gruen, Robert" , "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Message-Id: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I had the same message. Mine was due to a problem with the usr slice/partition & it was failing to mount on boot. I'm sure this was one of your previous responses but my best offering i'm afraid. >I have had several responses to a previous e-mail concerning this issue but >alas, non of them have resolved my problem. I was editing the rc.conf file >and I forgot the trailing quotes in one of the lines. Now when I attempt to >boot the computer I get the message: > >/etc/rc.conf: 12: Syntax Error: Unterminated string constant >Enter full path name for shell or RETURN for /bin/sh: > > >Well, when I hit RETURN, or type in the path to a shell I know is there >(/usr/local/bin/tcsh), it spits out the same message. I cannot get past >this point. I have tried to boot the machine in single user mode, with an >alternate kernel, but nothing seems to get me past this point. I always >wind up with the same message and prompt. > >Thanks in advance for any asistance. > >Rob > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message