Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 12:30:52 -0700 (PDT) From: Chris Dempsey <chrisdempsey@yahoo.com> To: "Dennis C. Prather" <dennis@productivity.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Won't Boot Message-ID: <20001010193052.16411.qmail@web120.yahoomail.com>
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These didn't work as in you could not edit the rc.conf file? ee should be installed in the base system and is the boot -s editor. Speaking of, try booting single user, using <spacebar>, boot -s when it says press enter to continue booting kernel. You can then remount the / and /usr filesystems to use vi or ee. The unterminated quote string error may or may not be on line 23. Look for settings that do not end with a quotation mark, or do not require a quotation mark. --- "Dennis C. Prather" <dennis@productivity.org> wrote: > Nope neither of those suggestions worked. > > > At 11:20 AM 10/10/2000 -0700, you wrote: > >When the rc.conf file is interrupted, the other > >filesystems may not be mounted. Try using ee > >(/bin/ee) or fsck/mount /usr first. > > > >--- "Dennis C. Prather" <dennis@productivity.org> > >wrote: > > > I have been trying to make this box into a > firewall. > > > I made a bunch of > > > changes and now when reboot I get this massege. > > > /etc/rc.conf: 23: Syntex error: Unterminated > quoted > > > string > > > Enter full path of shell or return for /bin/sh: > > > When I hit return I get the # sign but when I > try to > > > edit /etc/rc.conf with > > > vi I get this message. > > > vi: Not found > > > > > > Would someone please help? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Dennis Prather > > > Systems Administrator > > > dennis@productivity.org > > > <http://www.guntherconst.net/>Gunther > Construction > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to > majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body > of > > > the message > > > > > >===== > >Christopher P Dempsey > >--------------------- > > > >chrisdempsey@yahoo.com > >(805) 570-9230 > > > >__________________________________________________ > >Do You Yahoo!? > >Get Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from > anywhere! > >http://mail.yahoo.com/ > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Dennis Prather > Systems Administrator > dennis@productivity.org > <http://www.guntherconst.net/>Gunther Construction ===== Christopher P Dempsey --------------------- chrisdempsey@yahoo.com (805) 570-9230 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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