From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 9 10:35:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dip.sevicron.com (res146a-036.rh.rit.edu [129.21.146.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E53AD37B503 for ; Mon, 9 Oct 2000 10:35:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from isetr0 by dip.sevicron.com with local (Exim 3.16 #1 (Debian)) id 13igqD-0001OS-00 for ; Mon, 09 Oct 2000 13:35:57 -0400 Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2000 13:35:57 -0400 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: I'm locked out Message-ID: <20001009133557.B5282@sevicron.com> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from MROTHENBERG@exchange1.PRIA.com on Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 12:18:11PM -0400 From: Funn Dipp Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have a offtopic question about this... I've had to do this a couple times - messed up fstabs, rc.confs, etc. However - if I try to use an editor like vi or even ee, it's just all garbage. I can see bits and pieces of the file but it's not very pretty. Luckily I'm good at editing with my eyes closed so I get it fixed, but I'm guessing that shouldn't be happening. Any ideas? isetr0 On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 12:18:11PM -0400, ROTHENBERG, MICHAEL wrote: > heheh I did stuff like that last week... mad a mistake in fstab. > > you can change the r/w setting of an already mounted FS. if you man mount it > will tell you how. Also, you will have to manually mount all the other file > systems if you want to use any editors. > > -michael > > -----Original Message----- > From: Len Huppe [mailto:huppe@mailtag.com] > Sent: Monday, October 09, 2000 12:14 PM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: I'm locked out > > > 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