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From: Andrew Johns <A_Johns@TurnAround.com.au>
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To: Rick Knebel <rknebel@uplink.net>
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Subject: Re: Please Help with boot freeze
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Rick Knebel wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am very upset.
> I just got my freebsd 3.1 the way I wanted with my home network and thinga
> and now I have a big problem.
> 
> I was editing my rc.conf and must have got sloppy.
> On my nest reboot the bootup stopped right where it was mounting my drivce
> and said:
> /etc/rc.conf
> 16:Synatax error:
> end of file unexpected.
> Enter full name of shell or return for /bin/sh.
> 
> If I hit retrn I can see the files on my hard drive but cannot bring up an
> editor to fix the rc.conf file.
> 
> I tried copying rc.conf~ to rc.conf but it says file is read only.
> 
> Please help.
> I do not want to reload freebsd again.
> 

Don't worry - at the single user mode sh prompt, enter:
mount -u /

This will (re)mount / in read/write mode - then you will be
able to:
mount -a
to mount the remaining partitions in /etc/fstab and then you
will be able to:
vi /etc/rc.conf
as vi will be accessible from /usr/somewhere/vi (until the
last mount -a, /usr will not have been mounted).

HTH
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