From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 8 14: 7: 4 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp010.mail.yahoo.com (smtp010.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.173.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1468537B719 for ; Thu, 8 Mar 2001 14:06:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ksscendyn@yahoo.com) Received: from adsl-64-161-89-218.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net (HELO kurts-07wxp.yahoo.com) (64.161.89.218) by smtp.mail.vip.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 8 Mar 2001 22:06:57 -0000 X-Apparently-From: Message-Id: <5.0.2.1.0.20010308140506.00a50890@pop.mail.yahoo.com> X-Sender: ksscendyn@pop.mail.yahoo.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0.2 Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2001 14:08:02 -0800 To: Rick Knebel , questions@freebsd.org From: Kurtis Smith Subject: Re: Help with bootup In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG HI Rick, While the system is booting, you'll see a message that says "Press Enter to boot right away or any key for ... The system will then start counting down from 9. Do not press ENTER .. hit any other key than that one 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. -Kurt >Hi, > >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. > > >Thanks >Alot >Rick >-- >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 _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message