From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Aug 26 21: 7:52 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from convair.com (shem.lightrealm.com [207.159.139.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DDB915477 for ; Thu, 26 Aug 1999 21:07:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from md@convair.com) Received: from convair.com (s140.paris-22.cybercable.fr [212.198.22.140]) by convair.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA18674 for ; Thu, 26 Aug 1999 22:07:41 -0600 (MDT) Message-ID: <37C5FB90.8B2C38A0@convair.com> Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 04:44:32 +0200 From: Michel Davoudian X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.0.34 i586) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "stable@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Upgrading to 3.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi evryone, I used a 2.2.6 for a year without problems and had the good idea to upgrade to 3.2 stable. The process was smooth ... until I updated the rc.conf file and wrote a mistake in it (kind of bad quote somewhere..) Now I have the following problem : I can't boot any Kernel . I always get the error message : etc/default/rc.conf : 222 : Syntax error : EOF in backquote substitution. Enter full pathname of shell or RETURN for /bin/sh: I type and get following prompt: [\u@\h \W]# mount command gives : wds01a on / (local, read-only) and HERE is the problem : The filesystem is read-only and consequently I can't delete rc.conf nor rename rc.conf.previous in order to correct my mistake. Other detail, I can't see any DIR called /etc/default and the files rc.conf + rc.conf.previous are in the /etc DIR I quickly gave life back to an old Linux 2.034 server who was retired (DX2-66 !) and try to find a solution... Thanks for any hint to make this filesystem writable. I tried many options of the mount command but maybe my ideas are not so clear now... Michel To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message