From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 9 9:35:22 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from chmls06.mediaone.net (chmls06.mediaone.net [24.147.1.144]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABA2A37B503 for ; Mon, 9 Oct 2000 09:35:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailtag.com (h002078cea061.ne.mediaone.net [24.147.92.176]) by chmls06.mediaone.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA18914; Mon, 9 Oct 2000 12:35:11 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <39E1F3BC.291D0390@mailtag.com> Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2000 12:35:08 -0400 From: Len Huppe Reply-To: huppe@mailtag.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.74 (Macintosh; U; PPC) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Stephen Hovey Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I'm locked out References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-mac-type="54455854"; x-mac-creator="4D4F5353" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG It worked! A mount -a mounted all of my filesystems, and I was easily able to correct the typo. I am indebted to you. Thanks a bunch. Len Huppe ****************** Stephen Hovey wrote: > When you go in standalone as root - do > > mount > or > mount -a > > if you want them all mounted and writable. > > On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Len Huppe wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > > I have a typo/syntax error in my /etc/rc.conf file, and I am now locked > > out of my system. I don't know how to get back in and edit the file. > > The kernel lets me run a shell but the root partition is mounted as > > read-only. Can somebody tell me how I can mount the drive and correct > > the typo? > > > > I tried running a "fixit" session from the live filesystem on CD 2 of > > the distribution set,but it won't let me run the mount command. > > > > Help please !! > > > > thanks in advance, > > Len Huppe > > > > > > > > > > > > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message