From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 2 3:20: 9 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from isy.liu.se (isy.liu.se [130.236.48.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9C0D37B4EC for ; Fri, 2 Feb 2001 03:19:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from lagrange.isy.liu.se (lagrange.isy.liu.se [130.236.49.127]) by isy.liu.se (8.10.0/8.10.0) with ESMTP id f12BJmh28777; Fri, 2 Feb 2001 12:19:48 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <200102020950.f129oiY03553@bart.esiee.fr> Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 12:19:47 +0100 (CET) From: Micke Josefsson To: FreeBSD Admin Subject: RE: boot -s and read-only root filesystem , help Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 02-Feb-01 FreeBSD Admin wrote: > Hi > > I am facing a boring problem at 4.1-RELEASE > > The /etc/ttys file has been corrupted it seems > and now when the machine boots up I am not able > to have any accessible console > The machine starts its services but I cannot access to it ... > inetd is NOT running on this machine to add some fun !!! > > when I boot in single user mode I cannot modify any file > as the root filesystem is mounted read-only mode ... You can manually re-mount it with rw permissions. Do this with /usr too and you can use vi to edit /etc/ttys. You do not need to unmount / first. > I am stuck .. any help welcome ! ---------------------------------- Michael Josefsson, MSEE mj@isy.liu.se This message was sent by XFMail running on FreeBSD 3.5-STABLE ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message