From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 7 8: 3:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from kaon.intercom.com (kaon.intercom.com [198.143.3.30]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E80983FB7 for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>; Mon, 7 Feb 2000 08:03:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from [198.143.3.26] (helo=intercom.com) by kaon.intercom.com with esmtp (Exim 3.11 #1) id 12HqeC-0002ID-00; Mon, 07 Feb 2000 11:04:20 -0500 Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2000 11:04:20 -0500 (EST) From: "Jason J. Horton" <jason@intercom.com> X-Sender: mail@kaon.intercom.com To: Tom Vollmer <Tom.Vollmer@pai-ca.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XDM catch 22 In-Reply-To: <s89e7918.012@pai-ca.org> Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0002071101480.1698-100000@kaon.intercom.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I there a procedure for stopping to allow a command line prompt with > the volumes mounted that can be initiated through a "hot key" so I > might be able to change the "tty" file back to it's original state? Boot into single user mode.... at the boot prompt, do a boot -s You will probably have to remount the drives read write. see the Handbook and FAQs for more info To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message