Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 09:51:31 -0500 From: Steve Bertrand <steve@ibctech.ca> To: Pieter Donche <Pieter.Donche@ua.ac.be> Cc: "mail.list freebsd-questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: / mounted read-only after error in /etc/rc.conf Message-ID: <49749373.5040500@ibctech.ca> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.63.0901191544230.13159@hmacs.cmi.ua.ac.be> References: <Pine.GSO.4.63.0901191544230.13159@hmacs.cmi.ua.ac.be>
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Pieter Donche wrote: > I made a typing error when chanign /etc/rc.conf > (linux_enable=YES") > when rebooting the system, the boot stops > /etc/rc.conf: 22: Syntax error: Unterminated quote string > Enter full pathname of shell or RETURN for /bin/sh: > # > this leaves me with > /dev/ds0s1a on / (ufs, local, read-only) > > since / is read-only I can not edit /etc/rc.conf to correct the error. > > How to solve this? Try: # mount -u / Which will try to re-mount the / partition as read/write. Steve
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