Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2000 13:15:35 -0700 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cristjc@earthlink.net> To: Doug Barton <DougB@gorean.org> Cc: Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com>, John Daniels <jmd526@hotmail.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HELP! unbootable due to rc.conf Message-ID: <20000624131535.C256@dialin-client.earthlink.net> In-Reply-To: <3955136C.9A43A164@gorean.org>; from DougB@gorean.org on Sat, Jun 24, 2000 at 01:00:44PM -0700 References: <20000613191506.78143.qmail@hotmail.com> <39468D51.58991339@3-cities.com> <3955136C.9A43A164@gorean.org>
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On Sat, Jun 24, 2000 at 01:00:44PM -0700, Doug Barton wrote:
> For future reference, all questions belong on -questions. Cross posting
> is frowned on.
>
> Kent Stewart wrote:
> >
> > John Daniels wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi:
> > >
> > > I forgot to add a quote mark in rc.conf. Now my system will not boot fully.
> > > It takes me to a shell prompt from which I can move around the system
> > > ("cd") and execute simple commands like "ls" but I can't bring up an editor
> > > (I tried vi and ee) and when I tried to use mv to rename rc.conf (thinking
> > > that the system would boot with only the settings in /etc/defaults/rc.conf),
> > > the system responded that the drive was read-only.
> > >
> > > What can I do to get my system booting properly again?
> >
> > You have to mount /. The last time I did this was 3 or 4 weeks ago and
> > a "mount -a" in single user mode worked. Then you correct your rc.conf
> > error. I rebooted at this point.
>
> Make sure to type 'fsck -p' before you do the 'mount -a'. You should
> never try to mount a file system if it's not clean. Also, if you are in
> single user mode and want to go directly to multi-user mode, just type
> 'exit'. Conversely, if you are in multi-user mode and want to drop into
> single user mode without rebooting, all you need to do is type
> 'shutdown'.
One other note, there _is_ an editor on the root partition. The
Almighty ed(1).
ed, man. man ed.
--
Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu
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