From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 29 10:35:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from stella.pyramus.com (stella.pyramus.com [206.129.206.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A5421500D for ; Sat, 29 Jan 2000 10:35:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from blake@pyramus.com) Received: from phil.pyramus.com (phil [206.129.206.2]) by stella.pyramus.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA16422; Sat, 29 Jan 2000 10:45:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from blake@pyramus.com) Received: from phil.pyramus.com (phil.pyramus.com [206.129.206.2]) by phil.pyramus.com (8.8.3/8.6.12) with SMTP id KAA26100; Sat, 29 Jan 2000 10:39:17 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2000 10:39:17 -0800 (PST) From: "Blake R. Swensen" To: Len Conrad Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bad rc.conf, system unusable In-Reply-To: <4.2.2.20000129183926.017833f0@mail.Go2France.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Once the system boots and drops you to a shell (single usr mode) change the status of the / mounted filesystem to read/write (as an example, using /dev/wd0s1a.. your mileage may vary).... # /sbin/mount -u -w /dev/wd0s1a / Then mount the other filesystems so that you have access to an editor. # mount -a Then you can edit the /etc/rc.conf using vi, ed or whatever your favorite text editor is. Reboot and all will be right with your world. Peace, Blake On Sat, 29 Jan 2000, Len Conrad wrote: > 3.4 release: got a line in rc.conf with unterminated ", so the system is > read-only and unusable. > > I've then booted with the 3.4R cdrom and do post-install config of the > network interface (the hostname line is missing the 2nd quote mark), but > that doesn't fix the rc.conf pb. > > What's a quick way to get my system back? > > tia, > Len > > > > > 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