From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 27 22:02:14 2003 Return-Path: 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 A93DF37B401 for ; Fri, 27 Jun 2003 22:02:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8249143FF2 for ; Fri, 27 Jun 2003 22:02:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from blueeskimo@gmx.net) Received: (qmail 7910 invoked by uid 65534); 28 Jun 2003 05:02:11 -0000 Received: from dsl-cust-145.openweb.ca (EHLO [64.39.186.145]) (64.39.186.145) by mail.gmx.net (mp010) with SMTP; 28 Jun 2003 07:02:11 +0200 From: Adam To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20030628035710.32533.qmail@web12003.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20030628035710.32533.qmail@web12003.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1056776531.93161.2.camel@jake> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.0 Date: 28 Jun 2003 01:02:11 -0400 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Help! I killed my rc.conf and cant boot correctly! X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2003 05:02:15 -0000 On Fri, 2003-06-27 at 23:57, Keith Spencer wrote: > Want to hear a tale of stupidity and woe. > I screwed up fbsd 4.7 system rc.conf and can only seem > to boot into a basic session. Cant edit or save to > /etc files. > What to do and you guessed it...noboot disk was made > although I have another 4.7 fbsd machine nearby. > Tell me it's not fatal guys! I don't see why you wouldn't be able to boot into single-user mode, edit the rc.conf, then reboot. What exactly is the problem editing the files in /etc from SU mode? -- Adam