From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 5 12:52:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com (clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com [65.24.0.112]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 962BA37B718 for ; Mon, 5 Mar 2001 12:52:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wmoran@iowna.com) Received: from iowna.com (dhcp065-024-023-038.columbus.rr.com [65.24.23.38]) by clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f25KnVr00247; Mon, 5 Mar 2001 15:49:36 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3AA3FC0D.4364A878@iowna.com> Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2001 15:50:21 -0500 From: Bill Moran X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rick Knebel Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help with bootup References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Rick Knebel wrote: > I was editing my /etc/rc.conf and obviously made a mistake. > It stops on bootup and will not let me continue. > How can I get into my system to edit my mistake. While the system is booting, you'll see a message that says "Press Enter to boot right away or any key for ... bla bla bla" The system will then start counting down from 9. Press a key other than ENTER before it reaches 0. Then you'll get a prompt, enter "boot -s" which will boot the system in single-user mode (sort of like "safe" mode on Windows) You'll be asked for a shell (I always accept the default) then thrown into a shell prompt. From there you'll be able to repair your rc.conf file and reboot the system. -Bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message