From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 14 8:16:46 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta5.snfc21.pbi.net (mta5.snfc21.pbi.net [206.13.28.241]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96F7737B719 for ; Wed, 14 Mar 2001 08:16:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fscked@pacbell.net) Received: from pacbell.net ([63.203.72.145]) by mta5.snfc21.pbi.net (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.3.5.2000.01.05.12.18.p9) with ESMTP id <0GA7006EP3M5WI@mta5.snfc21.pbi.net> for questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 14 Mar 2001 08:10:54 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 08:24:37 -0800 From: richard childers Subject: Re: Help with bootup To: Rick Knebel Cc: Bill Moran , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Message-id: <3AAF9B45.277FCDFF@pacbell.net> Organization: The Free State of Dis MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (WinNT; U) Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Accept-Language: en References: <3AA3FC0D.4364A878@iowna.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This is why all aspiring UNIX administrators are required to learn not just vi(1), but ed(1). If you're reasonably good, you can get vi(1) working in single user; it's not too hard. (-: -- richard Rick Knebel wrote: > >Rick Knebel wrote: > > > >> I was editing my /etc/rc.conf and obviously made a mistake. > >> It stops on bootup and will not let me continue. > >> How can I get into my system to edit my mistake. > > > >While the system is booting, you'll see a message that says "Press Enter > >to boot right away or any key for ... bla bla bla" > >The system will then start counting down from 9. Press a key other than > >ENTER before it reaches 0. Then you'll get a prompt, enter "boot -s" > >which will boot the system in single-user mode (sort of like "safe" mode > >on Windows) You'll be asked for a shell (I always accept the default) > >then thrown into a shell prompt. From there you'll be able to repair > >your rc.conf file and reboot the system. > > > >-Bill > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > Thanks. > Now when I get to the prompt and type jpico which is the editor I use > it says not found > -- > Rick Knebel > rknebel@uplink.net > http://members.tripod.com/~Rick_Knebel/ > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Richard A. Childers Senor UNIX Administrator fscked@pacbell.net (email) 415.664.6291 (voice/msgs) # Providing administrative expertise (not 'damage control') since 1986. # PGP fingerprint: 7EFF 164A E878 7B04 8E9F 32B6 72C2 D8A2 582C 4AFA To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message