From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 9 16:40:39 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1847437B400 for ; Mon, 9 Sep 2002 16:40:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from yeoman.sinbad.net (yeoman.sinbad.net [12.17.176.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 041DF43E3B for ; Mon, 9 Sep 2002 16:40:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from akbeech@sinbad.net) Received: from stargate.northwindcom.net (39-10-237-24-cable.anchorageak.net [24.237.10.39]) by yeoman.sinbad.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2644815406; Mon, 9 Sep 2002 15:40:23 -0800 (AKDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Beech Rintoul Reply-To: akbeech@sinbad.net Organization: Sinbad Network Communications Inc. To: mingo lu , freebsd-questions Subject: Re: help!!! fbsd 4.5 only boot to single user mood Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2002 15:41:04 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.3 References: <20020909232545.4352.qmail@web14804.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20020909232545.4352.qmail@web14804.mail.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200209091541.04701.akbeech@sinbad.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Monday 09 September 2002 03:25 pm, mingo lu wrote: > Hi, all: > > I was playing around rc.conf file and messed up. Now > the system only boots to single user mode. Is anyway I > could i boot it up on floppy or cdrom to fix the file? > I know that one can boot with cdrom ... > =46rom single user mode hit enter to the shell prompt "#" mount -a then use vi to fix /etc/rc.conf Reboot and if you corrected the file you should be ok. Beech --=20 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Beech Rintoul - SysAdmin - akbeech@sinbad.net /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Sinbad Network Communications \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | 3101 Penland Parkway #K-38 X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Anchorage, AK 99508-1957 / \ ----------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message